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10 Village Green Road, Pinehurst

12 Barrett Road East, Pinehurst

95 Quail Hollow Drive, Pinehurst

Own a piece of Pinehurst history. Truly a historic property built in 1898 now a refined and stately residence. Over 6,500sf with open floor plan plus a carriage house. 4 bed, 4/2 bath.

“Thistle Dhu” historic flagship Pinehurst home. Completely renovated and restored. First miniature golf course in USA. 6 bedrooms, 7/3 bathrooms.

CCNC beautifully crafted with unmatched style. Exceptional indoor and outdoor living with both golf and water views; amazing location and many special features.

134 Lawrence Overlook, Seven Lakes West

85 Cypress Point Drive, Pinehurst

800 Lake Dornoch Drive, Pinehurst

Seven Lakes West. Lakefront home with optional Pinehurst Country Club membership. Home has 2-acres, gym, workshop, and guest quarters with kitchen. 5 bedrooms, 6/1 bathrooms.

Views of the 11th hole of the Cardinal Course combined with incredible architecture and design, spaciousness, and magnificent outdoor living spaces. 3 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

CCNC 5-acre golf front estate on the Cardinal Course. Gourmet kitchen, dining room, 2 fireplaces, master and guest suites, geothermal heating, pool, and more. 4 bedrooms, 4/2 bathrooms.

220 Merry Way, Southern Pines

810 lake Dornoch Drive, Pinehurst

250 McCaskill Road, Pinehurst

Elevated private equine retreat on over 17-acres in horse country. Rolling pastures, 3,500sf. Lovely home plus barn. outdoor firepit for star gazing. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

Best price in CCNC. 5.4-acres of transitional living with stunning golf vistas. Features include cedar shake roof, open floor plan, varied ceiling designs, and more. 3 bedrooms, 4/2 bathrooms.

Perfect old town location. 2.23-acres zoned VMU — great commercial opportunity.

80 Cypress Point Drive, Pinehurst

13 Granger, Pinehurst

105 Gordon Point, Seven Lakes West

“Fair Hill” offers 4 bedrooms, 4 full and 2 half baths, open plan, spacious master suite, office/bar, pool. Porch & terrace overlook cardinal’s 10 th fairway, tee box, and green.

Fairwoods on 7. Golf and pond views from this custom ranch overlooking #9 on #7. 3 bedroom, 3/1 bath, office, patio, 3-car garage. Beautifully landscaped with water feature.

Seven Lakes West. Unique lakefront home designed to captivate the lake views. Spacious living, 2 fireplaces, aluminum roof, maintenance free exterior. 3 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

$3,297,500 MLS 182223 Emily Hewson 910-315-3324

$2,949,000 MLS 186168 Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

$1,490,000 MLS 182888 Linda Criswell 910-783-7374

$1,450,000 MLS 186021 Scarlett Allison 910-603-0359

$1,250,000 MLS 184086 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

$1,325,000 MLS 186019 Scarlett Allison 910-603-0359

$895,000 MLS 175008 Scarlett Allison 910-603-0359

$875,000 MLS 182711 Carolyn Hallett 910-986-2319

Pinehurst Office

$2,700,000 MLS 183960 Scarlett Allison 910-603-0359

$895,000 MLS 185999 Emily Hewson 910-315-3324

$695,000 MLS 178679 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

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$649,000 MLS 185313 Linda Criswell 910-783-7374

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102 Douglas Drive, Seven Lakes West

240 Frye Road, Pinehurst

11 Edinburgh Lane, Pinehurst

Seven Lakes West all brick, waterfront home with over 3,700sf plus 1,300sf unfinished. Well maintained, large bedrooms, large closets, outdoor fireplace, and seating area. 3 bed, 3 bath.

Just steps from The Village of Pinehurst. This home is compact on the outside and expansive on the inside. Beautifully landscaped with a koi-filled pond & waterfall. 4 bed, 4 bath.

Renovated home on Magnolia’s 15th hole. New kitchen with stainless appliances, 3 updated bathrooms, hardwoods, large deck, stone fireplace in Pinewild. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

114 Timber Ridge Court, West End

20 Linville Drive, Pinehurst

4 Royal Dornoch Lane, Pinehurst

Vacation at home. Gorgeous custom home with pool, hot tub, and walk to marina. Main level master suite.

4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms.

CCNC elegance with a pool. Brick home with large family room, white kitchen, hardwoods, pool, and patio.

3 bedrooms, 2/1 bathrooms.

Overlooking 11th green of Dogwood, granite, stainless steel, plantation shutters, 2 fireplaces, generator, covered slate porch.

Perfect year-round living or golf getaway home. 2 bed, 3 bath.

2 Laurel Valley Court, Southern Pines

105 Bree Court, Aberdeen

80 Redtail Lane, Pinehurst

Better than new with 6 bedrooms. Immaculate home with stone fireplace, gorgeous kitchen, hardwood floors, coffered ceiling, enclosed rear porch. 6 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

New construction. Over 3,000sf, 0.5-acre lot, large bedrooms, kitchen with gas range and pantry, fireplace in family room, flex area with snack bar, covered porch, and patio. 4 bed, 3/1 bath.

Serene waterfront lot in the quiet lake home community of CCNC. Perfect location to build your dream home.

250 Sugar Gum Lane #208, Pinehurst

408 West Love Forty Drive, Pinehurst

10 Pine Tree Road #224, Pinehurst

208 lakeview condo, waterfront, transferrable Pinehurst membership, new HVAC, HOA Pool, rare find.

2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

Lawn and tennis in desireable upper section, living room with wood burning fireplace, plantation shutters and tile throughout.

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

Furnished condo with a beautiful view and upgraded tile work. Immaculate condition and rental ready.

2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

$639,000 MLS 186100 Linda Criswell 910-783-7374

$515,000 MLS 186427 Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

$369,000 MLS 186630 Linda Criswell 910-783-7374

$149,750 MLS 179434 Frank Sessoms 910-639-3099

Southern Pines Office

$595,000 MLS 178697 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

$550,000 MLS 183835 Marie O’Brien 910-528-5669

$485,000 MLS 185126 Carolyn Hallett 910-986-2319

$475,000 MLS 183367 Carolyn Hallett 910-986-2319

$349,900 MLS 186709 Laura Lycans 910-315-6353

$148,000 MLS 185893 Emily Hewson 910-315-3324

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$349,000 MLS 181341 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

$109,000 MLS 180215 Pamela O’Hara 910-315-3093

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135 Eagle Point Lane

Mid South Club, Southern Pines Regal custom built home featuring dramatic architectural detail, gourmet kitchen with eat-in space and island, a bonus room upstairs, family room with wet bar and a rec room on the lower level, and an area that would be a great wine cellar!

4 Bedrooms, 5.5 Baths, 5,000+ Sq.Ft.

MLS# 186561 $695,000

31 Northam Court

Pinewild Country Club, Pinehurst On a peaceful lot, offering a large living room with wet bar, gourmet kitchen with new granite counter tops, office, family TV area upstairs, screened porch, enclosed entertainment area with bar, built-in grill, deck, and more!

5 Bedrooms, 4.5 Baths, 3,900+ Sq.Ft.

MLS# 186841 $495,000

210 Grove Road

4 Drayton Court

Pine Needles, Southern Pines Beautiful home with a fenced in backyard, large deck, and wrap around front porch. Hardwoods throughout, gourmet kitchen with double ovens, fireplace in living room, formal dining, office/study, large rec area, and bonus room.

4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths, 4,000+ Sq.Ft.

Middleton Place, Southern Pines Lovely town home featuring a welcoming foyer with hardwoods, gourmet kitchen with custom cabinets, formal dining room and den with fireplace, large living room with second fireplace, and private brick patio. Interior recently all painted!

2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 2,200+ Sq.Ft.

2 Bay Hill Court

360 Lake Dornoch Drive

MLS# 186323 $349,900

MLS# 184245 $730,000

MLS# 183524

$539,000

MLS# 182221 $295,000

Mid South Club, Southern Pines Country Club Of North Carolina, Pinehurst Elegant home featuring a bright living room with fireplace, coffered Located on the 12th hole of the Dogwood Golf Course! ceilings in dining room, custom plantation shutters, lovely master This all brick home offers a grand entrance and suite with trey ceilings and enormous custom walk-in closet, lovely living room with French doors to a a rec room, storage area, covered porch, and patio. private deck and screened in porch.

5 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths, 3,000+ Sq.Ft. 3 Bedrooms, 3 Baths, 5,000+ Sq.Ft.

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67 Mom, Inc.

28 PinePitch 31 Instagram Winners 33 Good Natured

69 Pleasures of Life

By Jim Dodson

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35 The Omnivorous Reader

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75 Golftown Journal

53 The Kitchen Garden

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63 Proper English

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92 A Tradition of Culture

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51 Wine Country

By Nan Graham

88 A Legacy of Imagination

By Susan Campbell

By Jan Leitschuh

By Jim Moriarty Peter Hatch’s journey from Moore County to Monticello

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47 In the Spirit

By Angela Sanchez

82 Nurturing Jefferson’s Garden

By Joyce Reehling

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360 Fairway drive Unique 5 BR / 3.5 BA Cape Cod style home in desirable Knollwood.

Main living area has wood burning fireplace and flows nicely as natural light pours in. This home offers lots of space and is truly one of a kind. Just minutes from downtown Southern Pines!

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105 taLL tiMBers drive Amazing 5 BR / 4.5 BA brick home in desirable Pine Grove Village offers great living space for a large family. In addition to a large living room, dining room and spacious family room, the sellers have added a master suite and a master bath w/adjoining study.

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McLendon HiLLs • $498,000

637 McLendon HiLLs drive Lovely 3 BR / 3.5 BA lakefront home in McLendon Hills. The kitchen features a large island, custom cabinets and huge walk-in pantry.

Upstairs there are two add’l bedrooms and bonus room. Great home in gated community w/access to stables and riding trails!

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PineHurst • $369,000

14 scioto Lane Classic 3 BR / 2.5 BA home on the 18th fairway of Pinehurst #6. Interior has spacious living room w/entrance to the covered patio area, formal dining room and nice in ground pool!

Enjoy great golf course views in this private location.

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wHisPering Pines • $440,000

915 rays Bridge road Beautifully renovated 3 BR / 2.5 BA lakefront home featuring oversized living room w/fireplace and French doors to the spacious deck as well as gourmet kitchen w/marble countertops and stainless steel appliances. Charming gazebo and private lake…a must see!

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26 Lasswade drive Appealing 3 BR / 2.5 BA home on the 16th fairway of Magnolia course at Pinewild CC. Split bedroom plan offers gas fireplace, built-in book cases and vaulted ceilings. Kitchen has granite countertops and eating area that opens to the great room.

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PineHurst • $359,000

1010 Morganton road Fine 3 BR / 3.5 BA home on 14th green of Pinehurst course #1. The home features two first floor master suites w/golf course views, screened in porch w/ ceiling fans, large eat-in kitchen and spacious BONUS SUITE w/expansive golf front view. Also has a huge finished garage w/bay for included golf cart.

31 deerwood Lane Immaculate 5 BR / 3 BA home in Pinehurst #6 w/great upscale features and lots of storage! Bright and open, it offers high ceilings, hardwood floors, and lots of windows. Kitchen features custom cherry cabinets and granite countertops.

60 stoneykirk drive Beautifully maintained 3 BR / 2.5 BA home on the 13th hole of the Magnolia Course at Pinewild CC. Offers a large center living room w/fireplace, built-ins and beautiful views of the course and 8 X 14 workshop in the garage!

PineHurst • $419,000

McLendon HiLLs • $399,500

PineHurst • $425,000

22 kiLBerry drive Delightful 3 BR / 2.5 BA home on the golf course at Pinewild CC. Main floor is hardwood throughout and the floorplan is bright and open w/huge window walls from the living room to the deck while the kitchen offers lots of cabinets and counterspace.

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288 McLendon HiLLs drive Lovely 4 BR / 3.5 BA country home in popular McLendon Hills situated on 2 acres of gently rolling property.

Lots of curb appeal w/large covered front porch and a great floorplan featuring spacious greatroom and upstairs area.

6 victoria way Elegant 4 BR / 3.5 BA townhome in desirable Cotswold. Owned by an interior designer, this beautiful home is truly one of a kind with its beautifully designed living space, cozy kitchen w/upscale appliances and center island. Pinehurst CC membership available for transfer.

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PineHurst • $949,000

80 BraeMar road Incredible golf front home in Fairwoods on 7. This beautiful 4 BR / 5.5 BA home features top of the line finishes, marble and hard-wood slate flooring w/gourmet kitchen, luxurious bedroom suites, wine cellar and cascading terrace overlooking the 15th green.

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106 cook Point Gorgeous 3 BR / 3.5 BA waterfront home on Lake Auman, located on a point lot at the end of a private cul-de-sac. Beautiful panoramic views on three sides of the property and great orientation to the sun insures optimum enjoyment of morning sunrises and evening sunsets!

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PineHurst • $698,500

85 aBBottsFord drive Marvelous contemporary 4 BR / 2.5 BA home was honored as home of the year in 2006 in their price bracket. Located on the 13th green of the Holly Course, this is one of the most beautiful home sites in Pinewild, overlooking both golf and water with long views.

PineHurst • $649,000

537 FoxFire road Stunning 3 BR / 5 BA country home on 3.64 acres just minutes from the Village of Pinehurst. The expansive floorplan is light and open and features a custom designed fireplace and lots of windows overlooking the rear of the property.

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132 otter drive Custom built 3 BR / 3.5 BA home on Lake Auman w/spectacular water views in the ever desirable Seven Lakes West community.

Water front living at its finest!

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PineHurst • $536,200

19 McMicHaeL drive Custom all brick 4 BR / 4.5 BA home w/lovely views of the scenic pond as well as the golf course. The gourmet kitchen has custom cabinets, granite countertops, tile backsplash, built-in desk area and a walk-in pantry. This is truly a wonderful home.

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PineHurst • $895,000

91 aBBottsFord drive Magnificent 5 BR / 3 full BA 2 half BA Tuscan Villa with THE best golf course and water views in Pinehurst. Thoughtfully styled to reflect the grace of European life; this home offers incredible high end finishes and large spaces for luxurious living.

PineHurst • $539,000

14 LocHwinnock Lane Impressive 3 BR / 3.5 BA home on the 14th green of Pinehurst #9. The home offers many well-appointed upgrades including gourmet kitchen w/custom cherry cabinetry, and a gorgeous butler’s pantry for all of your entertaining needs! Pinehurst Country Club #1-#9 membership available for transfer.

PineHurst • $578,000

80 PinewiLd drive Stunning 3 BR / 3.5 BA home in Pinewild CC, located on the 10th tee of the Magnolia Course. The home offers an open floorplan w/many special features and upgrades as well as superior curb appeal.

PineHurst • $825,000

24 LocH LoMond court Stunning 3 BR / 5 BA custom home named Home of the Year in 2003. Home offers two 18 hole championship golf courses, a 9 hole par 3 course, a newly renovated salt water swimming pool, tennis courts and club house. Nestled on a quiet cul-de-sac on Lake Pinewild it’s within walking distance of downtown Pinehurst. A must see!

PineHurst • $639,000

80 FieLds road Quintessential 4 BR / 3.5 BA Old Town Cottage with all the charm and style expected in a vintage 1920’s property. Only owned by two families, this beautifully renovated cottage features original fixtures, hardwood floors throughout and in-ground chlorine pool.

PineHurst • $695,000

28 kiLBerry drive Grand 4 BR / 5.5 BA golf front home in beautiful Pinewild CC overlooking two greens, a tee and a natural pond. The French Country style home offers a spacious interior w/gourmet kitchen, Carolina Room overlooking a hillside water feature w/waterfalls, 2 pools and a guest suite w/private bath. Amazing home!

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M A G A Z I N E Volume 14, No. 4 David Woronoff, Publisher Jim Dodson, Editor

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Andie Stuart Rose, Creative Director

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Jim Moriarty, Senior Editor

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Lauren M. Coffey, Graphic Designer

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Deborah Salomon, Staff Writer Mary Novitsky, Sara King, Proofreaders Contributing Photographers

John Gessner, Laura Gingerich, Tim Sayer

Contributors Tom Allen, Harry Blair, Tom Bryant, Susan Campbell, Bill Case, Wiley Cash, Tony Cross, Al Daniels, Annette Daniels, Mart Dickerson, Clyde Edgerton, Bill Fields, Nan Graham, Laurel Holden, Jane Lear, Jan Leitschuh, Meridith Martens, D.G. Martin, Lee Pace, Jeanne Paine, Romey Petite, Renee Phile, Joyce Reehling, Stephen E. Smith, Astrid Stellanova, Angie Tally, Kimberly Taws, Ashley Wahl, Janet Wheaton

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292 Old Dewberry • Southern Pines Peaceable Kingdom Farm’s secluded hilltop setting is situated on 6.2 acres in horse country 2 miles from downtown Southern Pines. Gorgeous, renovated mid-century modern home, walls of glass, hardwood floors, recessed lighting & breathtaking views. Approximately 3,000 square feet on one level. Custom windows and glass doors throughout. Living room with vaulted ceiling and fireplace. Dining room with skylights. Separate office. Master bedroom with fireplace & two walk-in closets. Three additional bedrooms, two renovated bathrooms & central air. Grandfathered horse farm, fenced paddock & run-in shed. Many exterior updates including new roof & brick walkway. Spacious, gourmet eat-in kitchen with fireplace. Stainless steel appliances throughout. Separate wet bar. Offered at $798,000.

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285 N Bethesda Road

140 Pinegrove Road

Enchanting 1920’s country home in a garden setting on 4.09 acres. 4 BR, 4.5 BA with a guest cottage. Exquisite master wing, updated kitchen, 3 fireplaces. $998,000.

Exceptional renovated cottage in premier location. Beautifully designed in character with original architecture. 4BR, 3.5BA. $798,000.

101 Kirkhill Court

85 Lake Dornoch

70 Cypress Point Drive

55 Shaw Road

5 acres overlooking the 9th Fairway of the Cardinal Centerwood, the log cabin in the Village. An enchanting Course in CCNC, a testament to fine taste in a property built at the turn of the century, this 5BR, 5.5BA cottage Southern setting. 5BR, 5 full BA, 3 half BA. $2,775,000. represents a genuine piece of Pinehurst’s history. $1,650,000.

120 N Highland

The best of everything in Pinehurst #9, National.

Golf front CCNC with lake view. 4023 main Delightful Colonial Revival was designed by Aymar Embury Spacious light-filled rooms, antique heart pine floors house, 763 guest house addition. One floor, II for the Boyd family in the 1920’s. Slate roof, 5 fireplaces, on three levels, 6BR, 6BA, 2 half BA. $785,000. 3 BR, 3.5 BA main, 1 BR, 1 BA guest. $995,000. hardwood floors, charming guest house. $889,000.

1680 Midland Road

Stone Oaks Farm, a 1929 remodeled cottage on 6 private acres with 5BR, 4.5BA, gourmet kitchen, 5 fireplaces, 3900sqft. $1,600,000.

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110 N Highland Road

8 North South Court

Historic Southern Pines 1920’s Colonial Revival on 1.91 acres in Weymouth Heights. 6BR, 5.5BA, 5227sqft. Slate roof, 3 fireplaces. $898,000.

Mid south Club golf front 15th hole.

Southern Living home, 4 BR, 3.5 BA, brilliant design. $587,500.

60 Manigault Place

177 Cross Country

Private Horse Country estate on 16.7 acres Desirable 3BR, 3BA home located in Middleton Place is perfection on one level. Backing up to a large woodland area is very quiet and including lovely lake. Faulk designed 4BR, 4.5BA, 5640 sq ft home built in 1970. $1,425,000. a choice location in the walled community. $358,000.

840 Lake Dornoch Drive

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230 Inverrary Road

124 W Chelsea Court

CCNC golf front on Cardinal Course. One 30’s Dutch Colonial, restored in ’06 adding two floor living, remarkable kitchen, paneled wings. 4 BR, 3.5 BA, walled patio with courtyard, guest house, main floor master. $790,000. study. 3BR, 3.5BA, 3 car garage. $965,000.

A bit of golf heaven offering exceptional Living made simple in a beautifully designed villa in Mid one-floor living on a premier golf front South Club. Two spacious light-filled bedrooms each have location. 3BR, 3BA. $595,000. generous bathrooms with double sinks. 2BR, 2BA. $278,000.

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“Ask Garden Guru” Advice stinks — but only when unsolicited

By Jim Dodson

Spring is here.

Garden Guru will now take your important gardening questions.

Illustration by Romey Petite

Dear Garden Guru, I’m new to gardening this year and eager to learn all I can in a hurry. What would you suggest as a starting point? A bit worryingly, I hear hobby gardening can be kind of expensive. Is that true?

Signed, A Frugal Beginner from Biscoe Dear Frugal, Like keeping a mistress or owning a vintage British sports car, gardening is not for the faint of heart or weak of wallet. The proper handcrafted English tools, the glamorous plant seminars, the costly trips abroad simply to study the Great Gardens of the World — well, it all adds up so quickly. Pretty soon you’ll be dropping the mortgage money on rare fruit trees at the garden center, hopelessly addicted to spring catalogs (a somewhat philistine friend refers to these as “porn for gardeners”) or blowing through the kids’ college fund to turn your backyard into a Southern Gardens of Versailles. GG suggests you start small to determine if your interest is genuine or just a passing fancy, maybe with an inoffensive African violet in your kitchen window?

Dear Garden Guru, A few years ago, following a dream golf vacation to New Zealand, my hubby Ralph and I met an intriguing couple, who shared their love of golf and gardening. Ralph fell hard for the concept of “natural gardening” they practiced and, in a nutshell, has taken it up with gusto. The guiding tenet of the NG movement, as I understand it, is for proponents to become “one with nature.” In his effort to get “closer to the source,” as Ralph puts it, he has quit playing golf with his buddies, refers to himself as “The Green Man,” and has taken to gardening fully in the nude save for a ratty old golf cap he wears on rainy days. We’re both grandparents in our mid 60s and happen to reside in a classy, gated golf community where everyone is

beginning to avoid us at parties. This is so embarrassing. My golf handicap is in tatters. Any suggestions?

Signed, Worried (and still fully clothed) Wilma in Wilmington Dear Worried Wilma, Ralph’s unnatural attraction to the natural world simply reflects the addictive dangers of gardening. Clearly he’s gone “native” on you. Have you considered divorcing him and marrying one of his golf buddies? It could make dinner at the club so much nicer.

Dear Garden Guru, My wife Brenda is an award-winning flower gardener. I’m a serious vegetable grower who has won numerous ribbons at our county fair. Every March we have the same argument over space allocation in the raised beds of our rather smallish condominium terrace. Her zinnias are always encroaching on my heirloom snap beans, and don’t get me started on the times she’s heartlessly flattened my tender artisan squash plants trying to prune her Sugar Moon hybrid teas. A reproachful war of silence has developed between us. We rarely speak between my first decent tomato crop and her final lace cap hydrangea bloom in late summer. Is this any way to grow a garden or keep a marriage?

A Brooding Veggie Dude in Durham Dear Veggie Dude, Botanically speaking, you’re a classic mixed marriage, a tale as old as Adam and Eve and their famous domestic squabble over the proper use of fig leaves.

(Are they good in a stew or simply wearable?) Have you pondered getting a larger terrace or, even better, finding separate garden plots in adjoining counties? You might try moseying down to Pittsboro to find a patch where your Tuscan zucchini can roam free and easy. The happiest gardening couples, Garden Guru finds, are those who insist on separate bathrooms and growing spaces where cosmos and cucumbers never meet.

Dear Garden Guru, I recently accompanied my son’s fourth grade class on a field trip to the White House and was pleased to see gorgeous camellias blooming in the East Room — until,

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MUSIC THAT STIRS THE SOUL, AWAKENS THE IMAGINATION

Experience the Joy of Exceptional Music THE CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2018

3PM MATINEE & 7:30PM SHOWS OWENS AUDITORIUM AT SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

JEFF KREADY

MEGAN MCGINNIS

JEFF KREADY, a suave song and dance man (Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder & Billy Elliott the Musical) joins Co-Star MEGAN MCGINNIS (Little Women & The Diary of Anne Frank) for a tour through many of your favorite songs from the Great White Way. Backed by DAVID MICHAEL WOLFF on the piano, this knockout pair, will steal your heart in an extraordinary show, epic yet intimate!

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Symphonic Salute featuring

NATASHA KORSAKOVA Saturday, May 19 • 7:30pm Owens Auditorium, SCC

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of Russian-Greek decent, is one of the most popular violinists of her generation. The German Süddeutsche Zeitung describes her ability to play the violin as a “sinfully beautiful listening experience”. The violinist who speaks five languages is currently a coveted guest for national and international orchestras, music festivals and concert events. The artist stands for “Perfect technique, bold stylistic sense and musical intuition” (FAZ), as well as charisma without equal.

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to my horror, I discovered they were completely FAKE! A week or so later, I attended my great aunt Sissy’s funeral in Burgaw only to discover that the lovely spray of Easter lilies adorning her coffin were — you guessed it — FAKE! Honestly, how do you feel about FAKE flowers at important public events? I feel like our president and the dearly departed deserve SO much better than FAKE flowers!!! Don’t you agree?

Signed, Still Fuming in Fountain Dear Fuming, Sadly, we live in an age where many things are FAKE — news from the internet, bridges to nowhere and half the hairpieces in Congress. For all I know yours could be a FAKE letter, too. But assuming it isn’t, Dear Lady, one suspects neither your grade-schooler nor your expired great auntie gives a FAKE fig about the flowers in the East Room or silk lilies on her goodbye box. By the way, gardening is all about “faking” out Mother Nature — bending her wilder inclinations to your domestic desires. As a rule, a little fakery never hurts unless elected to Congress or performing a Super Bowl halftime show.

Dear Garden Guru, Why do I keep managing to kill every fragile Bonsai plant I ever buy? I water them religiously every morning. Any interesting thoughts?

Signed, Herbicidal in Ahoskie Dear Herbicidal, GG has lots of interesting thoughts. But none he would care to share with you. Two possibilities occur, however. A) Always read up on proper maintenance, for every Bonsai plant has unique characteristics and needs, and/or B) You’re indeed an herbicidal maniac who has no business gardening.

Dear Garden Guru, Remember the lady who found the face of Jesus in a taco and so went on TV? Well, my husband Bobby Ray has an incredible gardening talent. He grows fruit and leafy greens that look amazingly like all kinds of famous Americans! I can show you a Vidalia onion, for instance, that looks uncannily like the late Yul Brynner, and a head of curly endive that could be little Shirley Temple’s twin sister! (See enclosed Polaroids.) My question is, given America’s dual love of gardening and celebrities, do you think there might be a profitable business in growing celebrity look-alike fruit and veggies? I phoned up America’s Got Talent but they thought I might be some gardenvariety crackpot. Whom should I contact next?

Signed, Betty from Browns Summit P.S. Bobby Ray won’t reveal his growing secret but I think it may have something to do with the load of rhino poo he obtained from the state zoo last year. Also, I am not a crackpot!

Dear Betty, Gardening is full of great surprises. A few years back, I grew a dozen Yukon Gold potatoes that looked uncannily like the Founding Fathers. They were a big hit at our cookout on Independence Day. The truth is, celebrity fruit and vegetables are far more commonplace than you might think. Just the other day at Harris Teeter I saw a head of organic cauliflower that was a dead ringer for Justin Timberlake. That being said, there’s also rumor that HGTV plans to replace decamped rehab goddess Joanna Gaines with a new show on — wait for it — celebrity fruits and veggies! So they may have some interest in Bobby Ray’s talents. Failing that, the Garden Guru thinks a much surer bet is his secret rhino poo. Any chance I can get a load of that for my spring garden? PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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The O’Neal School would like to thank the following businesses who gave so graciously to its Annual Auction.

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PinePitch Live After 5 Live After 5 returns to Tufts Memorial Park Friday, April 13, with music, dancing, food, beer, wine and fun activities for the kids. The event is free, and you are invited to bring picnic baskets if you want but, please, no outside alcoholic beverages. Beer, wine and other beverages will be available at the park for purchase, in addition to food from Jason’s Mini Donuts and What’s Fore Lunch food trucks. The band will be Night Years. Don’t forget your lawn chairs, blankets and dancing shoes. The fun begins at 5:30 p.m., and continues until 9 p.m. Tufts Memorial Park is located at 1 Village Green Road W., in Pinehurst. For more information, call (910) 295-1900.

Meet the Author In Frances Mayes’ new book, Women in Sunlight, three middle-aged, American women, Camille, Julia, and Susan, meet at an orientation for an active lifestyle community and decide to lease a villa in Italy. When they make friends with their American neighbor, Kit, the women begin to see new potential for themselves, rediscovering their sense of adventure over the course of a year in the land of la dolce vita. Mayes will be at The Country Bookshop on Thursday, April 12, at 5:30 p.m. to discuss the book, answer questions, and sign copies. Stop by, meet and get inspired by “the Bard of Tuscany,” author of Under the Tuscan Sun and much more. The Country Bookshop is located at 140 N.W. Broad St., in Southern Pines. Call (910) 692-3211 for more information.

Blues & Brews: A Festival at the Farm Malcolm Blue Farm is a living history farm dating back to the early 19th century when the Sandhills area was known as the Pine Barrens. A visit to the farmstead and museum will give you a rare glimpse into the life of early settlers and on Saturday, April 21, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., you’ll get to enjoy a day of bluegrass performances by Tommy Edwards Bluegrass Experience, Unspoken Tradition, Time Sawyer, and Songs From The Road Band. You can stroll around the beautiful grounds, shaded by 100-year-old Darlington oaks as you enjoy the music and festival. Beer, cider and food will be available for purchase.

Admission is $5. The Malcolm Blue Farm is located at 1177 Bethesda Road, Aberdeen. For more information, call (910) 944-7275.

Annual Home & Garden Tour The Southern Pines Garden Club celebrates its 70th anniversary by inviting you into six gracious homes, enhanced by inspiring floral arrangements, and lovely gardens. The tour, on Saturday, April 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., includes “Loblolly” (the Lancaster Home), designed for Helen Boyd Dull, a Garden Club founder; the Saulnier Home, designed by Alfred B. Yeomans, a nationally renowned landscape architect who helped shape the Weymouth neighborhood in the late 1800s; and Liscombe Lodge in Pinehurst, once the home of Gen. George Marshall. Tickets are available at The Country Bookshop, The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange or www. southernpinesgardenclub.com, and are $20 in advance or $25 the day of, and include an orchid sale, a Pinehurst Resort greenhouse tour and restaurant discounts. All proceeds go toward community beautification and horticultural education projects.

The tour begins at the Campbell House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines.

For more information, call (910) 690-1440.

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The Miracle Worker As a baby, Helen Keller was stricken with an illness that left her blind and deaf. As a young child, she was nearly feral. Yet she grew up to graduate cum laude from Radcliffe College and become an influential social and political activist and inspirational role model. The story of that transformation, made possible by her teacher, Annie Sullivan, is told in William Gibson’s play The Miracle Worker.

Judson Theatre Company brings The Miracle Worker to the stage at Owens Auditorium from Thursday through Sunday, April 12 to 15.

The production stars John James, from TV’s Dynasty series, and New York actors Lea DiMarchi as Annie Sullivan and Allison Podlogar as Helen Keller. Owens Auditorium is located on the Sandhills Community College campus, at 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Tickets are $38 in advance and $43 at the door. Student, military and SCC discounts are available at the door. For show times and tickets, visit www.judsontheatre.com.

A Spirited Evening of Music On Wednesday, April 4, the Southern Pines Sister Cities, under the musical direction of Baxter Clement, will present a community concert with local and Irish teen musicians. As part of the Sister Cities International Music Exchange Program, students from the Southern Pines area traveled to Ireland to study Irish music and perform, and the music students from Newry, Mourne and Down District of Northern Ireland are coming here to do the same. Come to the Sunrise Theater, enjoy the music and offer some warm Southern hospitality to these young visitors. The performance is free and starts at 7 p.m. The Sunrise Theater is located at 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines.

Call (910) 315-4323 for more information.

Southern Pines Springfest On Saturday, April 28, more than 160 vendors from North Carolina and beyond will entice you with their beautiful paintings, jewelry, metal art, photography, woodwork, designs from nature, and more. For your entertainment, there will be games, rides, food and live music. Activities for kids abound on the Kid’s Block; and the Youth Bike Races for children 10 and under will have kids competing on their bikes, tricycles and Big Wheels. Sponsored by the Southern Pines Business Association and the Town of Southern Pines, the day of spring festivities happens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. along both sides of Broad Street in historic downtown Southern Pines. For more information, call (910) 315-6508. And don’t forget Springfest at Shaw House, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the corner of Morganton and Broad St., where tours and activities will be free for the day.

The Carolina Cabaret Enjoy the Carolina Philharmonic’s “Broadway Cabaret” starring Jeff Kready, a suave song and dance man who appeared in A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder and Billy Elliott the Musical and Megan McGinnis, who debuted on Broadway in The Diary of Anne Frank and played Beth in the musical Little Women. With David Michael Wolff hosting from the keyboard, Jeff and Megan will take you on a journey through some of your favorite melodies, interlaced with riveting backstories. You can catch this intimate performance at either 3 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, at Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Tickets range from $30 to $60, with discounts for students and active military. For more information, call (910) 687-0287 or visit www.carolinaphil.org.

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Bone Broth Hot, healthful and nutritious

By Karen Frye

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There is a strong resurgence of foods

that were consumed many years ago by our ancestors.

Our grandmothers made use of every part of the chicken, cow or pig in their recipes. They grew the vegetables, had fruit growing seasonally, and picked wild berries. They milked their own cows, and made their own butter. They were extremely resourceful, and creative, and worked tirelessly with love to prepare meals for the family.

Making soup is one of the best ways to utilize ingredients to make a delicious, healthful meal. Nourishing broths go back to the Stone Age. Soup is a true universal food, and the variations are endless and easy to prepare. Bone broth is one of the oldest and has resurfaced as a food highly beneficial to our health. It contains valuable amino acids, collagen, gelatin and minerals. Many of the nutrients in bone broth are not found in other foods.

Protein in the broth helps build muscles, strong bones and new cells in the body. It is one of the very best sources of natural collagen, which helps support healthy cartilage and connective tissue. Collagen helps form elastin within the skin to maintain youthful appearance, slowing the formation of wrinkles and other signs of aging.

Gelatin heals the gut and increases the growth of beneficial bacteria. The amino acid glutamine is a wonderful healer for the intestines and many digestive issues. It also aids in detoxification while helping the liver function better as it removes toxins. Bone broth is highly beneficial in boosting the immune system and increasing metabolism. In fact, if consumed on a regular basis, it can help all systems and functions throughout the body.

Bone broth can be made at home using grass-fed chicken or beef bones, organic carrots, celery, onions and leeks. Adding some seaweed boosts the trace minerals in the broth. Chef Sueson Vess is our local expert in preparing healthy foods. She regularly teaches classes on broth making and gluten-free foods. Check out her website, specialeats.com. She will walk you through the steps of making a delicious bone broth.

You can drink the bone broth as a hot beverage, and you can use it as a base for other soups. You can also find bone broth powders to add to smoothies. Increasingly, research bolsters the case for its amazing health benefits. It’s a tasty and delicious health food that could improve the quality of your life, too. PS

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PATSY ODOM Stained Glass

Stained Glass is a southern gothic novel narrated by Erin, a curious and intuitive child growing up among eccentric southern characters that she does not always understand.

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FRANCES MAYES Women in Sunlight

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes’s trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course of an exceptional year.

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TAYLOR BROWN Gods of Howl Mountain

In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina.

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY The Secret to Southern Charm

Leaving fans “practically [begging] for a sequel” ( Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with the second novel in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, featuring a trio of sisters and their mother who discover a truth that will change not only the way they see themselves, but also how they fit together as a family.

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LEAH STUART What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw

After a series of missteps in the face of his newfound fame, actor Charlie Outlaw flees to a remote island in search of anonymity and a chance to reevaluate his recent breakup with his girlfriend, actress Josie Lamar. But soon after his arrival on the peaceful island, his solitary hike into the jungle takes him into danger he never anticipated.

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Mysteries of the Swamp A supernatural risk for John Hart

By D.G. Martin

John Hart, who

grew up in Salisbury, is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, The King of Lies (2006), Down River (2007), The Last Child (2009), Iron House (2011) and Redemption Road (2016).

Both The King of Lies and Down River won Edgar Awards, making Hart the only author to win this prestigious award for consecutive novels. He has a bag full of other honors, including the Barry Award, the Southern Independent Bookseller’s Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, the Southern Book Prize, and the North Carolina Award for Literature.

Hart declares his favorite of all these successes is the The Last Child. So it should come as no surprise that his latest, The Hush, is a sequel to that book.

Readers of The Last Child met Johnny Merriman as a 13-year-old, followed his search for his missing sister and his traumatic childhood, and came to know his troubled friend Jack. In The Hush, as Hart explained to me recently, Johnny “is living alone in the wilds of this swampy area called the Hush, which is an abbreviation for Hush Arbor, an area of 6,000 acres of rough, mostly swampland. Johnny is the owner. It is the remnant of a 40,000-acre tract that his family owned in the 1800s.

“He is withdrawn from society and lives in the swamp, by himself. His only connection to humanity really is his buddy Jack, from The Last Child.

Jack is now a young attorney in town in his first week in practice when the book opens. It’s what he’s always wanted to do, to take control of his tumultuous life and get that kind of logic and reason, wrap his hands around that and live by those standards.

“But it becomes very difficult for him because the more time he spends with Johnny in the Hush, the more he begins to fear that things are not as they should be. There are mysterious things afoot in the swamp, terrifying things, dangerous things that Johnny is unwilling to talk about.

“Jack pushes, Johnny is recalcitrant, so part of the tension in the story is what grows between these two best friends as Johnny clearly is guarding some sort of secret that terrifies his best friend, and he flat out refuses to discuss it.

That’s a big part of the book, what’s going on in the Hush.”

Hart introduces existence of the supernatural powers in the Hush gently. After a terrible fall from a rocky cliff on the property, Johnny is cut, bruised and bloody. Back in town for a quick visit, Johnny allows his stepfather, Clyde, to bind up these serious wounds, and then hurries to leave and go back to the Hush.

Clyde says, “You want to go, I know. I can see that, too. It’s always Hush Arbor, always the land.

Just tell me one thing before you leave. Help me understand. Why do you love it so much?”

Hart writes, “He meant the silence and the swamp, the lonely hills and endless trees. On the surface it was a simple question, but Johnny’s past had branded him in a way few could ignore: the things he’d believed and leaned upon, the way he’d searched so long for his sister. If Johnny spoke now, of magic, they’d think him confused or insane or trapped, somehow, in the delusions of a difficult past. Without living it, no one could grasp the truth of Hush Arbor. Johnny wouldn’t want them to if they could.”

But some part of that magic is revealed to Jack when he visits Johnny in the Hush a few days later. Although Clyde had described Johnny’s horrible wounds, they were not apparent to Jack. Johnny “was shirtless and still and flawless. There wasn’t a mark on him.”

The reader who might have expected the usual John Hart thriller is on alert. Magic and the supernatural are going to play a big role in this saga.

Unraveling and understanding the source and the reasons for this magical power on the land provide the spine on which Hart builds this book.

But as the book begins, Johnny faces another serious challenge, a non-magical one. His title to his land is being challenged by a member of an AfricanAmerican family who lived on the land for many years and whose claim is based on a deed from 1853. Johnny’s legal claim is sound, but he used all his money to pay prior legal fees. Now, although he owns thousands of acres of land, cash-wise he is broke. So he wants his friend, the brand-new attorney

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Jack, to represent him.

He tries to persuade Jack to fight his legal battles. But Jack’s law firm forbids him from taking on Johnny as a client. Instead, the firm hopes to represent a wealthy out-of-town money manager and hunter who wants to force Johnny to sell his land, or failing that, find another way to acquire it. Why? The hunting in and near the Hush is dangerous, exciting, and promises the possibility of extraordinary game. When that man is mysteriously killed while hunting in the Hush, Johnny becomes a prime murder suspect. Meanwhile, some members of the African-American family that lived on the land show magical powers, especially while they are in the Hush. Traumatic events in 1853 involving Johnny’s slave-owning ancestors and those of the African-American enslaved family still cause trouble on the land.

Hart’s imaginative resolution of these troubles brings the book to a powerful and violent conclusion.

But there is a risk here for Hart. His prior books have, with only one minor exception, held to the standard rules for thriller writers. Those rules call for the mysteries to be solved without the aid of magic or the supernatural.

Hart is betting that the richness of his characters, his compelling storytelling, and the story’s supernatural landscape will hold his thriller fans despite breaking his old rules. Taking this risk, he hopes, will expand his appeal and share his storytelling talent with an even wider audience.

Taking risks, even those with high stakes, is not a new activity for Hart.

In fact, he seems to thrive on risk. For instance, he gave up his job as a stockbroker about 15 years ago to complete his first novel. That risk-taking paid off when The King of Lies became a best-seller in 2006.

Then Hart, after a string of three more successful books, risked upsetting his working routine by moving with his wife and two young children from Greensboro to Charlottesville, Virginia.

Although the move disrupted his writing program for several years, it finally led to Redemption Road, which became a critical and commercial success.

His completion of The Hush shows that Hart is fully back on his game.

Now, will the risk of making the supernatural an integral part of his work pay off for him?

Nothing is for sure.

However, the complex and rich stories in The Hush and the book’s supernatural but satisfying conclusion suggest that he is again on the right track. PS D.G. Martin hosts North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at noon and Thursdays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV.

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April Books FICTION Women in Sunlight, by Frances Mayes Julia, Camille and Susan have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship that will uproot them completely and redirect their lives. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, entices them into taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues each of them with a bright sense of bravery, gusto for life, and a fierce determination to thrive. With their new friend, Kit, an American writer, the three friends launch themselves into Italian life, pursuing passions long forgotten. Women in Sunlight reads like a Nora Ephron movie that no one wants to end.

Swimming Between Worlds, by Elaine Neil Orr When Tacker, a football hero who just lost his prestigious engineering job in West Africa, and Kate Monroe, a recent college graduate whose parents just passed away, encounter a young African-American, Gaines Townson, their stories converge. As Winston-Salem is pulled into the tumultuous 1960s, these three Americans find themselves at the center of the civil rights struggle, coming to terms with the legacies of the past as they search for an ennobling future.

Circe, by Madeline Miller With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man’s world. A daughter born into the house of Helios, Circe discovers she possesses the power of witchcraft. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to an island where she has her own adventures with mortals and mythological figures alike. She must choose the world in which she belongs.

Macbeth, by Jo Nesbø Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town with low employment and high crime, Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for the criminals. The drug trade is ruled by Hekate, whose illegal cultivation of substances, known as “the brew,” is overseen by her crew, “the sisters.”

A master of manipulation, Hekate has connections with the highest in power, and she plans to use them to get her way in this magnificent retelling of the classical Macbeth tale by a masterful modern storyteller.

Varina, by Charles Frazier From the best-selling author of Cold Mountain, Varina is a moving portrait of the Civil War and its aftermath told from the point of view of one of its most compelling and enigmatic figures. Inspired by the audacious and adventure-filled life of Varina Howell Davis, the second wife of President Jefferson Davis, Varina is the forcefully rendered, captivating fourth novel from Frazier, who returns to the time and place of his momentous first novel.

The Secret to Southern Charm, by Kristy Woodson Harvey After finding out her military husband is missing in action, middle sister Sloane’s world crumbles as her worst nightmare comes true. She can barely climb out of bed, much less summon the strength to be the parent her children deserve. Her mother, Ansley, provides a much-needed respite at the family beach house, putting her personal life on hold to help Sloane and her grandchildren wade through their new grief-stricken lives. Between caring for her own aging mother, her daughters, and her grandchildren, Ansley’s private worry is that secrets from her past will come to light.

NONFICTION Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class,

by Luke Barr In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times best-selling Provence, 1970, transports readers to the Belle Époque era turn-of-the-century London and Paris to discover how celebrated hotelier César Ritz and famed chef Auguste Escoffier joined forces at the Savoy Hotel to spawn the modern luxury hotel and restaurant, where America’s nouveau riche mingled with British high society, signaling a new social order and the rise of the middle class.

The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species, by Carlos Magdalena In an impassioned memoir about saving extraordinary plants on the brink of extinction, Magdalena takes readers from the Amazon to the jungles of Mauritius to deep within the Australian Outback in search of the rare and the vulnerable.

Back in the lab, he develops groundbreaking techniques for rescuing species from extinction, encouraging them to propagate and thrive once again. Along the way, he offers moving, heartfelt stories about the secrets contained within these incredible organisms.

The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table, by Rick Bragg Enjoy the memories and stories of one of the South’s best writers as he explores his mother’s cooking. Margaret Bragg does not own a single cook-

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The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wild Life, by Lucy Cooke Humans have gone to the moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we’ve still got a long way to go. Whether we’re seeing a viral video of romping baby pandas or a picture of penguins “holding hands,” it’s hard for us not to project our own values — innocence, fidelity, temperance, hard work — onto animals. So, you’ve probably never considered if moose get drunk, penguins cheat on their mates, or worker ants lie about. They do, and that’s just for starters. In The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke takes us on a worldwide journey to meet everyone from a Colombian hippo castrator to a Chinese panda porn peddler, all to lay bare the secret and often hilarious habits of the animal kingdom. Charming, and at times downright weird, this modern bestiary is perfect for anyone who has ever suspected that virtue might be unnatural.

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson Waist-high in a river in northern New Mexico, Kirk Wallace Johnson has learned from his fly-fishing guide about the 2009 heist of one of the largest ornithological collections in the world. The 28-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist robbed the Tring museum, full of rare bird specimens

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS Baby Monkey, Private Eye,

by Brian Selznick and David Serlin He’s a monkey! He’s a baby! He’s a private investigator! Baby Monkey’s adventures come to life in an exciting blend of picture book, beginning reader, and graphic novel. With easy-to-read text and elaborate illustrations by Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Selznick, Baby Monkey is just the cutest thing on the shelf. (Ages 6-10) My Pet Wants a Pet, by Elise Broach What starts out as a typical story — boy wants a pet — barrel rolls into a comic tale as each pet soon wants a pet of their own. The perfect story for the family pondering pet ownership, My Pet Wants A Pet reveals that, in the end, when you take care of something, that something takes care of you. (Ages 3-6)

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Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings Arfy wants a home.

Any home! The beautiful house, the butcher, the fire station. Arfy’s not choosy, so he pens notes to everyone on Butternut Street.

Unfortunately, no one can seem to accommodate this sweet, literate pup until, surprise, someone steps up. Just like Arfy, this charming little book will find its way into the hearts of readers young and old. (Age 3-6) Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes.

Jerome is a 12-year-old tragically killed when a police officer mistakes his toy gun for a real weapon. As a ghost, Jerome meets Emmitt Till, another ghost from another time, who helps Jerome understand the devastation unleashed on his family and community. Ghost Boys will haunt the reader long past the final page. Destined to be the novel of the year. (Ages 12 and up) PS Compiled by Kimberly Daniels Taws and Angie Tally.

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Growing up in North Carolina at a time

when holidays weren’t hyped in stores nearly as much — certainly not as soon — as they are these days, there still were a few things to count on as Easter approached.

There would be a trip to the barber, even if a forensic expert might be required to discern the difference between a crew cut before and after. You were expected to look sharp.

And looking sharp didn’t mean just how you were groomed but how you would be dressed on this particular Sunday in spring. This could mean a shopping trip to Belk or Collins in Aberdeen or the Style-Mart on the corner of Broad and Pennsylvania.

It never ceased to amaze my mother how the same boy who would play for hours without a pause and be mad when it was supper time would complain about being tired, or having sore feet, within minutes of setting foot in a clothing store and before a single pair of pants, seersucker suit, clip-on bow tie or shoes other than sneakers had been considered for purchase. My unease on these excursions didn’t make logical sense, because they didn’t last too long.

But all I knew was that I would rather be back at home doing something — anything, even listening to one of my older sisters’ Johnny Mathis 45s — than loitering in Boys’ Clothes.

The Saturday before Easter, there would be the hard-boiling and dyeing of the eggs. This ritual fascinated, in part because I’d seen the women in our house change the color of garments with Rit in a bathroom sink more than a few times. They were smart and didn’t let me assist with the sweaters because they were trying to get more use out of them, not have them come to an unfortunate end thanks to a careless child. I was happily encouraged to help out with the eggs, probably for two reasons: Seeing a chicken’s work go from white to a

pastel shade wasn’t very exciting, and eggs were only about 60 cents a dozen.

On Easter, before church and a delicious lunch of baked ham with the appropriate side dishes — a meal whose predictable ingredients year after year made it that much better — the Easter bunny would make a delivery, the basket lined with fake grass a color green not found in nature. There would be jelly beans, of course, but the main event was a hollow milk chocolate rabbit enclosed in a box with clear plastic sides.

I loved chocolate, but it would have been a blessing for humanity if these candy mammals had come in a box that couldn’t be opened. There are only a couple of tastes from childhood that still make me frown. A stuffed pepper is one. As for those rabbits, their taste was like that of the material on which they sat — not of the natural world. They had a sickly, chemical-like flavor, making a Hershey bar seem like a treat for royalty. And once part of a chocolate rabbit had been consumed, what was left wouldn’t get any better. Unlike sweets that were good and within reach, the rabbit would linger until being thrown away only to reappear a year later. I always thought they would taste better next time, but they never did.

The Easter egg hunt, usually occurring after our big meal, was a distraction from rabbit redux. Since we hid real eggs, though, and not plastic ones filled with trinkets that have become so popular, this practice had its drawbacks too.

If a couple of eggs were hidden too well, the smell would let you know a few days later.

There was a point where I got too old for a traditional Easter basket, but there was a transition period. I had taken up golf by then, and Mom gave me a sleeve of balls from the dime store. They had the compression of a marshmallow and would cut if you looked at them wrong, but that was just fine because they had replaced the hollow rabbits. If I had sampled them, they might have tasted better too. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent.

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A Sparkling Alternative

How carbonated water can bring your “mocktail” to the next level

By Tony Cross

Photograph by Tony Cross

At the beginning of the year, some

folks embark on the journey known as “Dry January.”

Maybe some of you reading this participated in — or should I say, endured? — a few weeks respite from consuming alcoholic beverages, giving your liver a muchneeded holiday from the holidays. For those who did: You sure did miss a couple of great snow parties. Not that I was at any of them; I was taking a break from drinking, too. I’ve had a few this year, but that’s it. Just a few.

My business had its first full year in 2017, and we made a lot of strides.

Even though I’m excited that we grew, the year was bittersweet. I lost my only brother at the end of 2016, and I spent a lot of last year looking through hazy eyes and going through the motions while trying to make sense of everything.

I am a firm believer that sometimes it takes life knocking us down into the dirt before we can grasp what we’re capable of, allowing us to fight back. In a nutshell, that’s what happened with me. This year, I’ve started drinking less and working more. I even started teaching an Inferno Hot Pilates class in my spare time. Switching things up has allowed me to enjoy a variety of non-alcoholic

beverages. I used to have a few on my menu way back when, and it’s always smart to have something — other than Diet Coke — available for guests when you’re hosting a party. I’ve gained a new appreciation for engineering (pretentious?) creative mocktails. Here are some simple and fun drinks when you’re taking a night (or a month) off.

There is one thing I have begun drinking more of: La Croix sparkling water.

I can’t even tell you how excited I am to get home and have one these days. I hope that sentence doesn’t get me banned from the bartender’s union. These zero calorie, canned beverages have become a staple in my refrigerator. If I was going to throw a party, or someone asked me to be in charge of the bar at theirs, I would go the extra mile. Adding sparkling water into the mix with any drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) is never a bad idea. I mean, have you tried our carbonated draft cocktails? What you want to do is create your own base, whether it’s a syrup or juice combo. Now that spring is upon us, here’s a quick drink that you can whip up and serve made to order, or batch them like a punch.

Using fresh cucumber juice this time of the year is perfect for creating light and refreshing elixirs. Add to that a touch of sugar, Pooter bitters from the folks over at Crude Bitters in Raleigh, and you’ve got yourself a winner.

The Pooter Cuke Sliced lime 2 ounces fresh organic cucumber juice 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice 1/4 ounce simple syrup (2:1)

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5 drops Crude “Pooter” Smoke & Salt bitters* 4 ounces sparkling water Add cubed ice to a Collins glass. Thinly slice lime wheels and put 3-4 of them in the glass.

Combine ingredients (except sparkling water) in a shaker, add ice, and shake like hell for 5 seconds. Strain into Collins glass and top with sparkling water. *If bitters is out of the question, just add a small pinch of Celtic salt. No substitutes on this one.

Have you tried Celtic salt? No? Go pick up a bag and see what I mean. It’s amazing.

The gin and tonic is the essential summertime drink. But there are two things wrong with writing about this cocktail right now: 1) I’m trying to pass on great non-alcoholic recipes and; 2) It’s not summertime. Well, we can still have the tonic, minus the gin, and sometimes springtime in the South can be just as hot as other states’ summers. So, without further ado, the Blackberry Tonyc. Believe it or not, my tonic syrup holds its own without any booze, and the notes of orange-citrus complements quite a few types of fruit. Not only does the color turn out gorgeous in this one, but you might convert some tonic haters (speaking from experience here).

Blackberry Tonyc 3/4 ounce TONYC syrup 1/2 ounce blackberry syrup** 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice 4 ounces sparkling water Orange peel Combine all ingredients (except sparkling water) into a shaker with ice and shake hard for 5 seconds.

Pour sparkling water in shaker, and then strain into a glass with ice. Express the oils from an orange peel over the top of the drink. Place orange peel into drink afterward. Santé!

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**Blackberry syrup: Wash and rinse 6 ounces fresh blackberries. Put them to the side. In a pot, combine 12 ounces baker’s sugar with 8 ounces water over medium-high heat. Stir until sugar has dissolved. Place sugar syrup in a blender with blackberries. Blend for 10-15 seconds. Pour into a container, and seal. Place in refrigerator overnight.

The next morning, strain the syrup through a cheesecloth. Bottle, seal and refrigerate. If you want this syrup to last more than a few weeks, add an ounce of 100-proof vodka to it. PS Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern Pines.

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upon us. The colors are changing and the earth is waking up. The air is warmer and the days are longer. We want to enjoy nature and embrace the change of season. No matter if you are an old friend of rosé or meeting one of my favorite wines for the first time, it’s the perfect choice to embrace this time of year, representing something new, approachable, fresh, clean and light.

Rosé (France), rosato (Italy), rosado (Spain) — depending on what part of the world you are in — has been produced for centuries. It can be from a single varietal, like grenache or pinot noir, or a blend of two or more like cabernet and tempranillo. It ranges in color from a nearly clear pale pink to something darker, almost a fluorescent orange. In style, it can range from bone-dry, crisp and clean with a hint of minerality, to medium sweet or even sweet. The color will be lighter or darker depending on the amount of time — from just a few hours to no longer than a day — that the skins come into contact with the fresh pressed juice, a process known as maceration. Sometimes a less common method called saignée is used when lighter colored juice is removed from a red wine in the early stages of production and made into rosé. There is also a blending method where red and white wines are combined to make rosé, but it’s common only in the making of rosé Champagne or sparkling wine. A key component of rosé production is the lack of aging. It is made to be consumed young and fresh, perfect for spring when the new vintages start to arrive.

The history of rosé is long and varied. Until modern-day winemaking techniques were widely practiced, most of the world’s red wines were rosé in color rather than the ruby red we know today. One of the world’s most famous rosé producing regions, Provence, in the south of France, has been producing rosé for centuries. In the late 19th and throughout the 20th century Provence’s rosé production increased along with tourism and the culinary renown of the region. Today, the classic Provençal style of rosé is becoming more and more popular throughout the winemaking world. Extremely food-friendly, it’s dry, pale and almost skeletal in structure, with notes of dried apricots and

brier fruit — strawberry and tart raspberry — with hints of thyme on the finish. Highly versatile, it’s perfect for a brunch of quiche and pastry; for snacks of cheese, olives and charcuterie; or with a dinner of spring greens salad with pea shoots, sweet peas, chèvre and mountain trout or young lamb roasted over a fire with new potatoes in bright green olive oil. This drier, cleaner, lighter-incolor style is currently the trend for rosé and it can vary widely in the varietal makeup of the wine. A decade ago a winemaker from a famous southern Rhône wine-producing family told me rosé should only be made from grenache grapes, or at least grenache should be the dominate grape in a blend. In the south of France, grenache yields those beautiful brier fruit, black cherry, dried herbs and spice notes and makes a great varietal for blending (especially with heavier varietals like syrah — also grown widely in the south of France), adding generosity and lightness to the wine. In Spain, tempranillo makes a slightly heavier style rosé on its own or when it’s blended with grenache. It’s dry and crisp with notes of orange and lime peel and different fruit markers like mandarin orange, kiwi and watermelon along with the familiar strawberry. In California the colors still vary from lighter to darker and varietals can range from grenache to pinot noir to cabernet sauvignon. Pinot noir-based rosés offer tart cherry and peach while a blend based on grenache will have a bit more acidity and notes of grapefruit and melon. Chile and Argentina are producing rosés from pinot gris to malbec. Varying widely in color and style, they range from light and crisp with a note of capsaicin to rich and dense with darker fruit notes like plum.

Of course rosé is great on its own but how much better and more fun is it to have with cheese? This time of year goat cheese, or chèvre, is at its best when sourced from small farms that let their herds graze on new tender grasses and leaves growing naturally. Spring means baby goats and baby goats mean milk.

Mothers are birthing and feeding as well as providing for the farm to make cheese. The combination of a fresh spring diet and an abundance of milk makes for chèvre that has a tart, slightly herbaceous flavor with a light and creamy consistency. Rosé and chèvre are welcoming and made to enjoy while young and fresh. So grab a bottle of rosé, a bit of chèvre and find a blooming dogwood to sit under to enjoy the tastes of spring. PS Angela Sanchez owns Southern Whey, a cheese-centric specialty food store in Southern Pines, with her husband Chris Abbey. She was in the wine industry for 20 years and was lucky enough to travel the world drinking wine and eating cheese.

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Breath-Holding Time The perils of a warm winter and protecting tender plants

By Jan Leitschuh

March, they say, comes in like a lion

and goes out like a lamb. But spend a few springs in the Sandhills, and you’ll learn that’s not always true. These are the days that give local farmers pause.

Sometimes a Sandhills March is as soft as a calico kitten. Then, having playfully coaxed the spring-blooming fruits out of their winter dormancy . . . whammo! A late, hard frost slashes vulnerable blossoms and blackens infant fruits. Thought it was spring? April Fools!

Who doesn’t love farm-fresh Sandhills produce? Juicy peaches, tender Sandhills strawberries, sweet blueberries, fall apples? While most of us won’t set out garden plants till mid-April, area fruit producers are “planted.” Our growers hold their collective breath from mid-March to the first two weeks of April, dreading a killing frost. The future of their 2018 crops depends on their ability to thwart the cold.

And yet, “It’s not the cold that we’re worried about so much,” says John Blue of Highlanders Farm, a seventh-generation heritage farm on Highway 22 in Carthage.

“It’s not the cold,” agrees peach and apple producer Ken Chappell of Eagle Springs. “There are peaches that can withstand minus 15 degrees,

and produce fruit as far north as Canada.” Plants have a winter-protective mechanism called dormancy. It allows them to withstand bitter, low temperatures. Lengthening days and warm sun awaken the plant to a new season. It shoots out blooms and tender new growth.

It’s when Sleeping Beauty awakens that things get tricky. Timing is everything in fruit production.

“The warm winters of the last couple of years have broken dormancy early,” says Blue. When that happens, the fruit producer has to be super-vigilant in protecting the vulnerable new growth. That can mean extra labor and long, exhausting — even wet — nights until the last frost date has passed.

It’s not unusual to get those late March and early April frosts, but with a warm winter, strawberries and other fruits will bloom early. The plant itself can take a lot of cold, but the blooms are fragile and more prone to freeze than the plant. “When the strawberries bloom in February or even January, they’re just too advanced to hold,” says Blue.

Highlanders Farm grows roughly three acres of strawberries for the pick-your-own market, their own farm stands, value-added ice creams and jams and for the Sandhills Farm to Table produce boxes. Strawberries are a high-value crop per acre, but they are costly to install and maintain — and, potentially, lose.

Damaged blooms mean less fruit so it’s rough on the bottom line. Besides reduced yield, frost kills deliver another economic whammy. “If blooms get damaged we need to pull them off the plant to reduce disease potential,”

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says Blue. “So, you have time and another labor expense for cleanup.”

For those with pick-your-own fields and farm stands, weird weather can spin the calendar a bit. Mother’s Day is the typical peak of strawberry season. “Some of these strange years throw the picking off,” says Blue. “In a strange year it’s probably peaking a week or two early.”

Luckily, strawberry farmers have a few tricks up their sleeves to hang on to future strawberry shortcakes. Most Sandhills producers use white row covers for frost protection. These spun poly fabric strips “get you about five-seven degrees of protection,” says Blue. “You can use a heavier one, but it lets in less sunlight,”

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“In 2007, with that April freeze, we lost everything — blueberries and blackberries. Since 2007, there’s been a 50-50 chance you’re going to lose 50 percent of your crop.” also needed for plant health. Still, “most people are going to a heavier one after the last several years.” Cue the on-and-off row cover dance on especially warm days. Wind makes the process even more exciting.

Sprinklers can also protect blooms when temps plunge. Paradoxically, an ice encasement holds tender blossoms safely. But the intervention takes a lot of water. “Once you start, you don’t want to cut it off until the temperature comes up,” says Blue. “It’s nerve-racking, you can’t risk a machinery breakdown. Last year some were running 12 hours a day for a week or so.”

Eagles Nest Blueberry Farm in Jackson Springs was one farm that used water to protect blueberry and blackberry crops last April.

“The Southern highbush blueberries are a little bit hardier than the rabbiteyes, but they also bloom earlier, and sometimes we lose those,” says producer Karyn Ring. “This year, we’ve already reached our chill hours (the required number of cold temps to set a crop) and

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they are ready to bloom in early March.

In 2007, with that April freeze, we lost everything — blueberries and blackberries. Since 2007, there’s been a 50-50 chance you’re going to lose 50 percent of your crop.”

This year, Eagles Nest is experimenting with row covers for its blueberries. “We won’t do it on all three acres of the berries,” says Ring.

“We’ll try them on the Southern highbush, and attempt to cover one row of two rabbiteye varieties just to see — no point in buying all this fabric if it doesn’t work. “ Chappell Orchards also deploys protective strategies — wind machines. “We have four,” says Chappell, who grows 35 acres of peaches and six of apples, “but they are only protective when the air is still. Then you can warm four to five degrees. “ The first two weeks in April “is when we get our damage,” says Chappell. “Last year, it was late March due to early bloom. Two years ago, we managed a third of a crop of peaches, but the apples were damaged. Apples have five seeds, but some got only one due to poor pollination.”

Ah yes, the bees don’t like to fly in cold, wet and windy weather. Toss in another challenge for Sandhills fruit.

And it’s not just fruit. Billy Carter of Eagle Springs likes to roll the dice on a March 10 planting of a cold-hardy variety of sweet corn, planting a heat-loving crop very early to capture the late spring craving for sweet corn.

“It’s a gamble, and the largest portion of the time you’ll make it,” he says. Three years ago, that first planting got wiped out in an April 10 freeze. “The corn is not inexpensive to lose, but you’re making eight to ten successive plantings,” he notes. “With strawberries, you have so much more in that one planting. Corn costs you $125 an acre at that point, where strawberries are a $10,000 investment.”

Not until tax day do area fruit producers let their breath out. “If there’s no freezing weather in sight by April 15, then I feel pretty confident we have that crop of peaches,” says Chappell.

“So the first two weeks of April are critical.”

You can fight, but ultimately only do so much. “At a certain point,” says Blue with a rueful laugh, “you just have to go with what’s happening.”

Here’s hoping! PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and co-founder of the Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative.

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Ladies Fingers, gumbo or okra . . . the

plant has many names and even more uses. Our okra, like many things Southern, is regarded by some as inferior, an essentially unworthy vegetable. We Southerners never remark, as some do, that it is “slimy.” It’s the same as saying that Aunt Tillie’s nose twitches after her fourth bourbon and branch water. In these parts, we tend to ignore such aberrations and avert the eyes.

Okra is a cousin to our emblematic cotton as well as the hibiscus and hollyhock. After the boll weevil decimated King Cotton, the pesky bug turned to okra for breakfast, lunch and supper. Travelers noted okra cultivation in Egypt as far back as 1216, so like most Southerners, okra likes to trace its lineage back a bit. Even today, okra grows wild in West Africa and in parts of India.

It has been popular in our neck of the woods since the 18th century . . . reported by Thomas Jefferson. Aside from its veggie status, whether fried, pickled or paired with onions and tomatoes or used to thicken stews, okra is extraordinarily versatile. During the Civil War, the benighted plant was used

by Confederates as plasma and a blood extender. Unable to get coffee, they also made do with a hot drink made from okra seeds, which they pretended was a macchiato from Starbucks.

Possible future uses for okra include a particle board material that is better than material we use now, even chopped into feed for livestock and using roots and stems as fuel. It has been used “for making rope and producing paper.”

But wait until you hear the medicinal benefits. It’s a great low-calorie, zerofat (unless fried) food. Also a super fiber additive, diuretic, and even contains a male contraceptive, gossypol. Wait, there’s more. Its laxative constituent feeds you good bacteria and slows the rate of sugar in the intestinal tract, stabilizing your blood sugar. Scientists claim that okra helps with acid reflux, and aids in controlling asthma.

It all sounds a bit like the snake-oil salesman in the Wizard of Oz, but studies are recognizing okra’s value. And your mental health is not ignored. Okra is said to be excellent for those feeling exhausted and experiencing depression.

Okra seems to have something for everyone.

My husband, wearing his beloved pith helmet, planted a Victory Garden in our side yard. He especially prized his lush okra plants with its star-shaped leaves and spectacular white flowers. But in the sizzling July sun, the plants were prone to fainting . . . a case of the real Victorian vapors. Extra watering revived them for a while, but soon the heat exhaustion set in again, and the okra plants bent back on their stems in a full-out swoon.

Their gardener in his pith helmet devised a rescue plan — ingenious but bizarre. He gathered every umbrella in the house, tied each umbrella to a stake next to each distressed okra plant, and opened every umbrella. Yellows, green checks, fuchsia stripes and firehouse reds (even one red, black and white Mickey Mouse vinyl number) bloomed over the garden. Dazzling!

Passersby stopped dead in their tracks at the sight of the umbrella bouquet.

All onlookers agreed it was a novel horticultural solution. Despite my Rube Goldberg’s heroic and theatrical efforts, the okra succumbed. The plants were taken off life support. The umbrellas were returned to their respective closets and automobiles. The day of the whimsical flowers was over . . . the riot of color . . . gone.

Okra, prone to be the object of jokes, seems to lend itself to the theater of the absurd. In Mississippi, Delta State University even has a Fighting Okra mascot . . . no fooling. The official mascot is the Statesman, which is slightly overcome with its own gravitas, especially in contrast to the overwhelming popularity of the zany Fighting Okra.

I think our Carolina cousins to the South may be on to something. The Okra Strut in Irmo, South Carolina, began in 1974 and every September offers a parade, crafts, fried okra, of course, and a highlight event called the Shoot-out at the Okra Corral . . . an eating contest featuring what else?

So if you have been sneering at this fuzzy vegetable, please give it a second chance. We all deserve one. And that old Southern standby might even become the new kale! PS Nan Graham is a frequent contributor with unparalleled knowledge of the South.

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By Serena Kenyon Brown

From the Middle Ages until 1752,

the English legal year began on Lady Day, that is, the Feast of the Annunciation, which falls — by no coincidence, I’m sure — on the 25th of March, just after the vernal equinox.

Many other creeds and cultures date their years from around this point in the calendar, and as the equinox goes by and we arrive at April, and spring, that seems eminently sensible.

When I was a city dweller I never used to give much thought to the way we see in the New Year during Christmas, bleary-eyed and liverish, awaiting the bills, just as winter’s really starting to sink in its teeth. The only indicators of seasonal change were the London plane trees outside the office window. In the summer they gave the glorious impression that one was working in a treehouse.

During the winter they seemed to disappear completely into the permagloom.

I would put my unease around the 1st of January down to overdoing it on the 31st of December, and trudge over Waterloo Bridge into the new year with the rest of the flock.

But outside the urban microclimate it doesn’t make sense, that the year be new when the trees are black skeletons, the hedgerows bare and the fields set thick with frost. It sets us off on the wrong foot, I know now.

The bright red and gold of the Sandhills years brought with them something of a revelation.

In England, spring is all as advertised by the great poets: racing lambs and a host of golden daffodils. Yes, the weather can be a tad cruel — it might warm up in June — but the days are lengthening and the shadows shrinking rapidly.

Here in the Sandhills the dwarf irises are poking up through the pine straw.

The evenings are sweet with the scent of pine, the longleaf cones swelling to a fecund purple before they explode the golden pollen that will engulf us all this month. Turtles emerge to sun themselves on beaver-fallen logs. Snakes are slow and hungry, chock-full of hibernated poison. The frogs are warming up for their summer chorus.

Best of all, the dogwoods are blossoming. What could make one feel more optimistic than those delicate constellations dotted through the budding woods?

I had been in the Sandhills about six months, long enough to learn a few of the trails and tracks of the Walthour-Moss Foundation, when I went for a ride, just Castalon and the woods and me. Cas was a dignified warmblood of advancing years and bright bay coat, and, unusual in a herd animal, a preference for human company over equine. He was just the consort for such a venture.

It was early April. There was a dreamlike, slow-motion quality to the day.

There was a musk of deer catching in the breeze. A woodpecker hammered from time to time. The sand was deep in the firebreak and Cas and I moved at a leisurely pace, reins long, bay ears flopping. We saw no other horses or riders, though a fox squirrel kept us company for a few hundred yards and there was a flash of sapphire as a bluebird dived into a nesting box.

We thudded softly over a wooden bridge and followed the course of a creek that ran clear over its smooth sand bed. We nudged into Cas’ rocking-horse canter, but within a few strides we pulled up. I was spellbound.

This was my first sight of the wild flowering dogwoods. We stood at the entrance to a dappled world of spring green and broderie anglaise. It was as though we had happened upon the Lady Chapel within the longleaf pines’ cathedral.

We walked very slowly along the creek. I drank in every moment. It was spring distilled.

Though I rode on many more trails, through many more springs, I never returned to that place. I didn’t want to add another layer to the gossamer of memory. I fell in love with the dogwoods that day, and looked for them eagerly in every wood thereafter. When we moved to the little house on May Street I was glad to find that two old dogwoods graced the front lawn. Through the seasons we lived there, those trees came to represent hope and beauty and the careful balance of nature.

Hope, beauty, balance. We need that at a beginning. The new year starts when the first dogwood of the season flowers. PS Serena Brown is chilling the champagne for Dogmanay, which she celebrates annually on the night before the first dogwood blooms.

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The Long and Winding Bagel Trail A talisman with veggie cream cheese

By Deborah Salomon

Ancestry.com purports to trace

your genealogical map and provide signposts. Recently, while spreading the cream cheese, I realized that my signposts are bagels. In fact, were I Little Red Riding Hood, chewy bagel crumbs would mark my trail.

Bagels? C’mon.

There has never been a bagel like New York bagels of the 1940s. They arrived before dawn at little neighborhood deli-groceries, called commissaries, in huge brown paper flour bags. Such a commissary was tucked into the basement of the apartment building where I lived, accessed by a dark, spooky hallway. How proud I was, at age 8, when my parents trusted me to fetch the Sunday papers and bagels, which cost a nickel apiece.

Back then, all bagels were plain with a hard glossy shell (dusty with flour from the bag) and chewy interior . . . fantastic, unmatched.

We moved to Asheville — land of the biscuit-eaters — when I was 10. Nobody knew what a bagel was.

Lender’s poor excuse had not penetrated the South. I was devastated.

Lots of New York guys showed up at Duke. Parents of the one I picked lived in a fancy Manhattan neighborhood where lo — the corner apartment building had a semi-basement commissary. At dawn, a truck dropped off that heavy paper sack full of still-warm bagels, a quarter each, five for a dollar.

Heaven. I was waiting, with the dog that was my excuse for rising early. I married the New York guy.

His employment took us to Montreal, now celebrated as home of the world’s best bagels, of a slightly different ilk: hand-rolled, softer crust, ultra-chewy, baked throughout the day the European way, in wood-fired brick ovens. These irregularly shaped bagels coated in sesame or poppy seeds were truly outstanding. The closest bakery was half a mile away from our apartment. Every morning, I pushed the stroller there, bought one for my teething toddler, one for me.

“Bagel” was one of her first words, as she pounded the front door, demanding the walk. Rainy days were hell.

Meanwhile, New York bagels were also going to hell. They became softer, sweeter, sold by franchise bakeries with cute names — Bagel Broker, Bagel Nosh, Yagel Bagel. Add-ins like raisins and blueberries appeared. Green

bagels for St. Patrick’s Day, heart-shaped for Valentine’s, pumpkin bagels for Thanksgiving. Heresy! Blasphemy!

Then I moved 90 miles south of the Montreal bagel shrines, to Vermont . . . and guess what? A local attorney of European lineage named Nordahl Brue founded Bruegger’s, which produced a creditable version of the real thing. Bruegger’s turned on-site bakeries into sandwich shops that spread down the Eastern Seaboard, including, coincidentally, walking distance from my apartment in Asheville, where I returned in 2007. By then, hummus, sprouts and asiago were the complements of choice.

Along the way, I researched bagel history. They originated as stirrup-shaped rolls Polish bakers made to shower King Sobieski returning victorious from battle. Eventually, the stirrup was closed into a circle. Jewish bakers brought them to New York’s Lower East Side, where they flourished and moved uptown. In brown paper flour sacks. Incredibly, I discovered a personal connection when my niece married Polish artist Jean Sobieski, a descendant of that same king.

Now, bagels cost almost a dollar apiece. Supermarkets and a few bakeries produce a sweet, mushy imitation in more flavors than Oreos. The only quasi-authentic ones I’ve found are baked at Lidl, the German supermarket chain in Sanford. I read that some fancy food emporium in the Big Apple has resurrected the “original” New York bagel but I doubt it, if they aren’t dropped off in a brown paper flour sack before dawn.

However, I refused to abandon this talisman. Every few months I visit my grandsons, in Montreal, where I buy three dozen bagels (seniors get a baker’s dozen) from a neighborhood bakery with a wood-fired brick oven. After they cool, I pack the 39 gems in bags, freeze and fly them back to North Carolina. One U.S. Customs inspector at the airport smiles when he sees “the bagel lady” approach his checkpoint. I thaw two dozen, warm them a bit, spread with homemade veggie cream cheese and bring to The Pilot/ PineStraw office so biscuit-eaters can experience the real thing.

The remaining 15 I hoard, in memory of those long happy walks as a young mother, pushing the stroller through snowy streets, for the ultimate reward. Because, as it happens, this story isn’t about bagels. This story is about a life. PS Deborah Salomon is a staff writer for PineStraw and The Pilot.

She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com.

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Birthday Battles

Hiding behind a piece of cake

By Renee Phile

Most of my life I have struggled with

social events, but birthday parties are the worst. I admire people who can go to them, smile politely and enjoy themselves, which must include just about everyone. But me? My heart falls when one of my boys brings home a birthday party invitation accompanied with eager pleas of, “Can we go?” Sometimes, I’d try to hide it in the junk mail pile and hope they would forget about it. No chance. I got the occasional reprieve if I could claim a work conflict but, most of the time, there was no excuse other than anxiousmom-who-thinks-talking-to-new-people-is-the-scariestthing-ever. So I went. Most of the time I’d try to hide in a corner, a bathroom or even my car, usually behind a piece of cake. Anytime someone talked to me, my sorry attempts at conversation would be something along the lines of, “I like bread. Bread is good.”

It was the best I could do.

I’ve been working on this, and have gotten better, although most birthday parties are still handled strategically with a plan and an escape route.

A few summers ago I was at a birthday party that I couldn’t avoid. Kevin had gotten the invitation three weeks prior and marked the birthday party on his calendar with a drawing of a big blue cake. Every day, usually multiple times a day, he would remind me of this event and that we should start preparing. If anyone mentioned doing anything else anytime near the party, Kevin would immediately shoot down the idea. “We can’t because we have a birthday party that day,” he’d say. I tried to keep my feelings on the back burner since 1) I was getting better; 2) Kevin was obsessed; 3) the whole family was invited; and 4) the party was within walking distance. The perfect storm.

So, that particular morning around 8 a.m. Kevin started reminding us about the 1 o’clock party. The reminding continued like a cuckoo clock. The presents were wrapped. The card was signed. We were ready. It was 1:04 p.m.

We were still at the house. Kevin said with a bit of hysteria, “I feel like you all are acting like the party hasn’t already started!”

So much for fashionably late.

We walked there. Water games, a bouncy house, a Slip ‘N Slide. Kids with drippy green and blue popsicles were scattered around the yard. I told myself I did not have to stay, but I chose to. A few minutes in, I thought to myself, “This party will go down in the books as the first one I didn’t have to hide somewhere.”

The birthday fun was exploding through the yard. Older brother David was standing beside me, and a dad and his kid arrived. The kid, who I will call Jake, was a friend of Kevin’s at school. So, Jake and his dad walked up to David and me. Jake’s dad introduced himself as Jake’s dad and stuck out his hand. I froze. A few seconds passed and I finally said, “I’m Kevin’s dad.” He looked at me, but just nodded. “Nice to meet you,” he said.

When Jake’s dad walked away, I realized what I had said. I turned to David.

“Did I just introduce myself as Kevin’s dad?”

David laughed and said no, that he is pretty sure I hadn’t, because that would be funny and he would have remembered that, but he admitted he wasn’t really paying attention.

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah, about 75 percent sure.”

Great. I had a 1-in-4 chance of being a moron.

Maybe Jake’s dad didn’t notice. Of course, he did. He looked at you weird. David said you didn’t say “dad.” No, he said he wasn’t sure. You’re an idiot. You can’t even survive a child’s birthday party. Most people aren’t like this.

The birthday revelry continued. I watched the kids play, and ate some cake with fondant icing that tasted like plastic. I rebounded enough to have a seminormal conversation with someone that wasn’t about liking bread.

To make matters worse, David was invited to a birthday party that evening.

Two birthday parties in one day. At the time David was 12, so my attendance was not required. Fine with me. As I was driving him to his friend’s house, he said, “Mom?” “Yep?” “The more I think about it, the more I think you did say ‘dad.’ In fact, I know you did, but I said you didn’t because I didn’t want you to worry about it.”

Mom got a present that day, too. PS Renee Phile loves being a mom, even if it doesn’t show at certain moments.

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At the English-Speaking Union, learning is a lifelong mission

By Joyce R eehling

Sometimes I am lucky enough

to stumble into a very good thing. Upon leaving Connecticut we knew that one of the things we would miss most would be the exceptional speakers we went to hear at Fairfield University Open Visions Forum.

The proximity to New York and even Washington, D.C., plus very healthy funding by donors and businesses brought truly great personalities from every possible walk of life. Nothing quite like it was here, or so I thought.

Then I saw that one of my favorite people, Thomas Jefferson, would be speaking in Pinehurst (in the guise of Bill Barker from Colonial Williamsburg), and off I went to get tickets-except that he was coming to the English-Speaking Union, members only. Who the heck were they?

I first feared that it would be folks who thought only English should be spoken in our country, but that is not the case. Nor is it a “dining club for the elite,” as some have said, even though they dine together.

No, E-SU has a history, and a deep and abiding set of principles and purposes.

Sir Evelyn Wrench founded this international education charity in 1918 with the aim of bringing together people from different cultures and languages to find a way to build skills, confidence and communication. The intention was to use a common language, English, to further knowledge, understanding and peace and to provide these skills in a non-political and non-sectarian way.

In 1957, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II became the royal patron and E-SU received a royal charter. Princess Ann took over from Prince Phillip and serves as the present patron.

All very nice as far as that goes for those of us in “the Colonies,” but the real job of our E-SU here in the States and around the world is to foster the learning of English as a tool for those who come from elsewhere, as well as our own students.

I came for the speakers and have stayed for the real work of E-SU, helping middle school teachers and students thrive in debate training throughout their school years as E-SU has fostered — along with their schools — strong teams in several schools across Moore County. They enter our annual competition and may go on to further debates nationally.

We also sponsor and present the annual Shakespeare competition, where high school students study Shakespeare and perform a sonnet and a monologue from his plays.

These skills give young students insight, skill and the ability to study, listen well and present themselves in a public format. No matter what technology does for us, everyone needs to garner these skills, find like-minded folks and continue our learning path all through our lives.

At its headquarters in New York City, English in Action puts people together who can assist new learners in both language and cultural understanding, helping them find the assets they need to turn their lives into productive and exciting ones here while learning to speak English. Whether by choice or fleeing war, whether young or old, these people need help learning English and American culture. E-SU in NYC does that because we believe that common language is essential.

Learning skills to become an American with English are not vastly different from the skills children need to leave home and find their way in the world.

Language, listening, communicating clearly and being able to define what you believe and who you are are the things I think E-SU does for new arrivals and for our kids right here at home.

The Luard Morse Scholarships help students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities study at a British university for a semester. The Walter Hines Page Scholarship offers British and Argentine teachers a chance to explore and exchange educational ideas in America.

E-SU also offers extra training in the UK for an array of courses to help bolster teachers and their constant need to be refreshed and reinvigorated for the task of teaching.

As to the “dinner club” thing, yes, it is true that we gather for dinner or lunch, but the real purpose is for us to learn from a series of speakers we bring to Pinehurst or have on our own front door step. In the past, we have hosted some gifted writers like Lynne Olson, who wrote the New York Times best-seller Citizens of London, and Craig Johnson, who writes the wonderful Longmire series of stories of law in the wilds of present day Wyoming.

We gather for international speakers as well, like Dieter Dettke, an expert on European security and Euro-Russian relations; Hodding Carter, journalist and a former spokesman for the U.S. State Department during our hostage crisis in the 1970s; and Capt. Carl Newman (now retired), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Deputy Director for Aircraft Operations, who did 14 years of hurricane hunter flights in one of the world’s premiere research aircraft. These are a sampling, a very few, of the men and women who come to help us be lifelong learners.

A charity that focuses on making learning a keystone of life, keeping English as a gateway to knowledge and communication without destroying other languages or cultures, and above all supporting our teachers and students, that is what the English-Speaking Union turns out to be.

And now, many months of the year Darling Husband and I hear fine speakers while we support our devotion to learning. The funds raised by our Sandhills branch plant deep roots right here and in the world. PS Learn more about E-SU and its programs for students and teachers by emailing sandhills@esuusa.org.

Joyce Reehling is a frequent contributor and good friend of PineStraw.

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Fine Feathers The unmistakable yellow-rumped warbler arrives with spring

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The days are getting longer, the temperatures

are rising and the birds are definitely paying attention!

More specifically, their hormones are reacting to increased daylight and the males are beginning to advertise their wares in preparation for the breeding season. Even some of our lingering winter visitors are becoming more noticeable as they sport brighter colors and begin to sing. The yellow-rumped warbler happens to be a shining example.

Yellow-rumpeds are a bird of the pine forests in summertime, but in winter they can be found all along the East Coast and throughout the Southern U.S. From mid-November until late April, they are quite common everywhere in North Carolina. As spring approaches, the birds acquire distinctive bright black and white plumage with splashes of yellow. The rump is indeed brightly colored as are the “shoulders” and the crown. These little birds, that previously may have gone undetected in your neighborhood, will turn into flashy little songsters with a beautiful warble that is now hard to ignore.

Yellow-rumped warblers, who are mainly insectivorous during the summer

months, find plenty of small insects here in the central part of the state even in the colder months. Yellow-rumpeds will grab flies and midges in mid-air, beetles and spiders in thick vegetation. But they are also known for their adaptability when it comes to feeding. In addition to a variety of invertebrates that may be active in wet habitat, berries are a staple of the birds’ diet. In fact, their digestive system is such that they can consume wax myrtle and bayberry fruits.

This is why you may hear these little birds referred to as “myrtle” warblers.

Such adaptable foraging behavior allows these birds to winter considerably farther north than other warbler species in the United States. Furthermore, they will also visit feeding stations where suet or dried fruit or jelly are offered.

And if they happen upon a hummingbird or oriole feeder, they’ll even drink sugar water.

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The conversation moved on to more famous stories from the past, some true, late season cold front pushed us out of but most embellished with just a breath of what actually happened. the rockers and off the side porch of Slim’s old country store Shadows were lengthening across the gravel parking lot of the old place, and all too soon, the reunion of the old group broke up as, one by one, folks said their and inside to the pot-bellied stove. “Hey, Leroy, put some goodbyes and headed home. I was the last to leave, along with Bubba. more coal in this thing,” Bubba said, pointing to the stove.

“Coot,” he said as we were standing on the porch, “we’ve got to get together “The folks at the Weather Channel might say that spring is more often. Now that you’re famous with that book coming out and all, I hardly get to see you.” on the way, but they ain’t been sitting out there in the cold.”

“You know that’s not right,” I replied. “You’re always off in some exotic port A group of us, mostly old-timers, were visiting our ancient rendezvous spot fishing, like down in Costa Rica, or hunting sharp tails out in Montana. Bubba, to catch up with one another and remember the good old days. Bubba put the you’re hardly ever home.” He laughed, and we shook hands reunion together and was holding forth with stories about promising to get together again before long. those days long gone when we were all a lot younger and a On the drive home, I thought about the old guys and their lot more, as Bubba put it, “interesting.” He owned the store dogs and our many experiences together, good friends all, named simply Slim’s Place after Slim, the former owner, including the furry ones. passed away and the country store sat forlorn and sad on the The Paddle stories brought back a memory of the day she side of the road. Bubba said he bought the place to give ne’rcame to live with us. Jim and I picked her up at the Raleigh do-wells and reprobates a place to go. He hired Leroy, Slim’s Airport. She had come from a kennel in Pennsylvania and was cousin, to manage the business, and he showed up whenever only 9 weeks old. On the way home, she rode in my lap, yawnhe happened to be in the area. ing and dozing while Jim drove, and as we pulled into the city Bubba and I go way back. In our younger years, we had “Coot, do you limits, Jim said, “We need to take her by Coleman’s so Dicky adventures all over the country. From hunting mule deer can see her.” remember that in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah to goose hunting on Dick Coleman was a good friend who died too soon. His the Eastern Shore of Maryland to duck hunting at Lake time on the Falls name and stories of his adventures came up several times Mattamuskeet here in North Carolina. Our adventures during our gatherings at Slim’s. In our early years, he owned of the Neuse were only curbed by time and homestead responsibilities. a men’s specialty store that was famous across that part of As Bubba likes to say, “Bryant, you ought to write a book.” when . . ” the state.

And I did.

When we barged in with Paddle, all work stopped. Several The old stove began to glow red with the addition of customers were in the process of buying, and most of them more coal, and the group pushed chairs away in unison and came over to look at the new puppy with Coleman leading the got comfortable. group. We put her down on the floor and she started darting “Coot, do you remember that time on the Falls of the from customer to customer.

Neuse when we were duck hunting the West Bank of the “OK, Bryant,” Dick said. “Let’s see if this little thing knows lake before they filled it?” Bubba had bestowed the nickname how to retrieve. He went in the back of the store and came out Coot on me years before and, like a bad habit, it hung on. with a small canvas dummy used to train young retrievers.

“We hunted that lake a bunch before they closed the dam.

“I used this when I was working Honcho. See if she knows Which time are you thinking?” what it’s all about.” Dick’s black Lab, Honcho, was famous in our group as a dog “The time Paddle was swimming for all she was worth after a wounded duck just right for Coleman — wild and headstrong, but a great friend and hunter. The you shot, and you were running along the bank, trying to get an angle for the dog fit. coup de grâce and you stepped off in that hidden creek and floated your hat.” The Dick handed me the dummy and I knelt down, holding Paddle in my arms. group broke out in laughter.

Everyone got behind me to be out of the way.

“Yeah, I do recall that day. And to add insult to injury, the game wardens, “Here you go, girl.” I showed her the dummy, and she was instantly alert. who just happened to be hiding behind some brush out in the middle of the lake, When I tossed it 10 or 15 feet down the aisle, she leaped from my arms, tore motored up laughing, wanting to know if I was all right.” across the room, and did a flip as she dove on it and grabbed it in her little mouth.

“Well, you were fine, and you did finally shoot that duck, or Paddle would She paused, looked back, then regally trotted back to me. The audience, Dick’s have chased it to the coast.” customers, laughed and applauded.

“I had to empty the water out of my gun before I could shoot, and it was Coleman exclaimed, “Tom, this dog was born to do this!” a lucky shot. That mallard was almost out of range.” The gang broke out in As usual, when it pertained to working dogs and most anything involving chuckles again.” hunting and fishing, he was exactly right. PS “That was some dog,” H.B. Johnson added. H.B. was a quiet type, not open to much conversation, but he always seemed to be there taking it all in. “Somebody Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman and once said, maybe Bubba, there was a time or two when you had a couple of beers PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist. after a dove shoot that Paddle would drive you home in that old Bronco of yours.”

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The Raynor Touch Remembering Donald Ross’ greatest rival

By Lee Pace

Golfers in these parts

speak of Donald Ross as if he’s a next-door neighbor or first cousin. And why not?

Just a few generations ago, he was building seven golf courses in Moore County, running the Pine Crest Inn and hopping the nearest train to head south to Palm Beach or north to Rochester to lay out another showpiece. In North Carolina alone, you can’t sling a 7-iron without landing on a Ross design.

That said and his immense talents acknowledged, how fun might it have been for the golf world if Ross, who designed an estimated 385 courses over nearly half a century, had had to compete mano a mano with another architect with a similar background in agronomy and construction?

Someone like Seth Raynor, for example?

In 1923, officers at the Country Club of Charleston were moving their course from a site north of the city to a new location on James Island, just across the Ashley River from the Battery. They retained Olmsted Brothers landscape designers, the second-generation offshoot from the esteemed Frederick Law Olmsted, to develop a master plan, and one letter from Olmsted staff to club leadership read as follows: “Suggestions. (1) Golf Architect: Ross best known so his name probably has best

advertising value. Raynor or some other good architect (Strong) probably easier to get when you want him and fees perhaps a little less.”

Raynor got the job there and another concurrent assignment at a new course being planned a dozen miles inland, Yeamans Hall Club. He designed both concurrently, and the Country Club course opened in May 1925 and Yeamans Hall in November.

Ross was prolific designing courses in the mid-to-late 1920s during stout economic times. But so was Raynor. His schedule in early 1926 was reflective of his popularity and the innate desire of any industrious businessman to take on as much work as reasonable.

Raynor’s first trip in early 1926 took him from his home on Long Island west to California by train. From there he took a boat to and from the island of Hawaii, then journeyed back across the nation by train to Florida. Under construction amid the palm trees of Oahu was Waialae Country Club, and within the dense forests of the California coast was the Dunes Course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club. There was a new venture at Monterey to plan for as well — an elite club to be known as Cypress Point. Raynor had been approached for the job through his Eastern connections with Marion Hollins, the 1921 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion who was tapped by Cypress Point founder Samuel Morse to help plan and develop the club. In Florida, Raynor had already designed and built nine holes at the Everglades Club for Paris Singer, the heir to the sewing machine fortune, and his visit in early 1926 would be to fine-tune a new 18-hole layout for Singer to be known as North Palm Beach Country Club (it now exists as a Jack Nicklaus-signature course with no remnants of Raynor’s work).

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The intense physical toll manifested itself on the train trip east when Raynor developed fever, coughing and chills — he had contracted pneumonia. He checked into the Helen Wilkes Resident Hotel in Palm Beach and died on Jan. 22, 1926.

He was 51 years old.

“It was too much travel, too much work, too little relaxation,” one of his relatives later lamented.

One obituary notice in his hometown paper in Suffolk County, N.Y., was brief but lauded Raynor for his place in golf. “Mr. Raynor was internationally known for his genius in laying out golf courses and overcoming engineering obstacles in his work.”

And this from a tribute in the Metropolitan Golfer written by Gould Martin: “It is the irony of life that every once in a while one who has risen to the very top of his chosen profession passes away from this existence with almost no contemporary notice. Seth J. Raynor was not only at the top of his profession but he was an artist, indeed a genius as well.”

And to think: Raynor developed these skills and nuances in a sport he didn’t play as a child and never even remotely mastered as an adult. He claimed that if he played too much golf, his courses would become too easy. He felt the ideal links should not come down to the playing level of a poor golfer.

Raynor actually worked less than two full decades in golf course design and construction, roughly half that time as an associate of Charles Blair Macdonald and the rest under his own shingle. He’s credited with nearly 50 designs by Ron Whitten and Geoffrey Cornish in their book The Golf Course, and four of his courses are listed in the Golf Digest Top 100 rankings for 2017-18 — Fishers Island, Camargo, Shore Acres and Yeamans Hall, as is one he was intimately involved in building for Macdonald, National Golf Links, and another he remodeled years later, Chicago Golf Club.

Macdonald in 1906 decried the lack of sophisticated golf venues in the States, saying, “As yet we have no first-class golf course comparable with the classic golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland.”

He proposed to solve the problem himself by buying land on the eastern extreme of Long Island and building a links-style course that would become the National Golf Links of America. Macdonald knew golf and he knew great holes. But he didn’t know construction, drainage, agronomy or greenkeeping.

“It was imperative I secure an associate, one well-educated with wide engineering capabilities, including surveying, companionable, with a fine sense of humor, but above all, earnest and ideally honorable. Such a man I found in Seth J. Raynor,” Macdonald said of retaining Raynor in 1907 to survey the site for his new course.

Raynor was born in Manorville, N.Y., and studied engineering at Princeton. He worked for himself as a land surveyor and landscaper in

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Southampton when Macdonald brought him into the National project — first to survey the land and then with an invitation to supervise construction once Macdonald learned of Raynor’s skills and meticulous work ethic.

“He scarcely knew a golf ball from a tennis ball when we first met,” Macdonald said, “and although he never became much of an expert in playing golf, the facility with which he absorbed the feeling which animates old and enthusiastic golfers to the manner born was truly amazing, eventually qualifying him to discriminate between a really fine hole and an indifferent one.”

Macdonald’s goal with the National was to help expose Americans to a quality golf experience like they would find overseas, and one of his ideas was to take the concepts for the well-known holes in Britain and adapt and tweak them for particular sites in the States. They became known as “template holes,” and Raynor would carry on the philosophy when he hung his own shingle in 1915 after Macdonald retired. Among them were the Short, Eden, Redan, Bottle, Sahara, Cape, Alps and many others.

Architect Tom Doak in his foreword to George Bahto’s book The Evangelist of Golf, the Story of Charles Blair McDonald, observed that “playing a course by Raynor or Macdonald is like visiting an old best friend — the familiarity returns almost instantly, even if you have never seen it before!”

Doak wondered if he was a hypocrite for finding it distasteful when modern architects repeat their own work while acknowledging a fondness when Macdonald and Raynor did the same thing. But he noted a distinct difference.

“Macdonald and Raynor were paying homage to a classic form, and at the same time, trying to devise improvements to it based on the local situation,” Doak wrote.

Raynor met with fortuitous timing in spreading his design wings after leaving Macdonald, as the United States was reaping the financial rewards of the Industrial Revolution and enjoying the heady economic times of the Roaring ’20s. Golf was growing in popularity, and Ross was handling a myriad of jobs, including the Pine Needles and Mid Pines projects in Southern Pines. There was plenty of work to go around.

Imagine what Seth Raynor might have accomplished had he not died so young.

“Sad to say he died ere his prime,” Macdonald wrote. “Raynor was a great loss to the community, but a still greater loss to me. I admired him from every point of view.” PS Chapel Hill-based writer Lee Pace is currently working on a history book for the Country Club of Charleston, set to be released prior to the club hosting the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open.

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for Brenda Porterfield, on her 75th birthday

Each year you surprise me like the first taste of joy after long sorrow has tamped down even longing into gray wood, and I have forgotten all the colors but brown, and all the sounds but that of dry leaves underfoot.

I look out a frosted windowpane and you appear again, bold pink, standing out like a girl overdressed for a party,

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You speak of more that waits in stillness, in want of light and time to wake it into beaty, buds of potential turned to glory — abundance that defies freezing nights, resilient, determined to bloom.

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Nurturing Jefferson’s Garden Peter Hatch’s journey from Moore County to Monticello

By Jim Moriarty

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quipped with a pair of hands weather-beaten as a potato farmer and adorned with a shock of gray hair as wild as a patch of weeping love grass, Peter Hatch spent 35 years faithfully tending the garden of a man who died 140 years before he was even born. The man was Thomas Jefferson. The garden was at Monticello. And Hatch’s path to Virginia went straight through Sandhills Community College.

Hatch had a self-described “privileged upbringing” in Birmingham, Michigan, a chichi suburb of Detroit. His father, Clarance, was an ad guy, a madman, a hotshot executive at the firm Campbell Ewald who had scaled the Mount Everest of advertising accounts, General Motors, in the days when what was good for General Motors really was good for America. Peter, the offspring of his father’s second marriage, was a six-year veteran of the exclusive Cranbrook Schools. At the age of 14, he took the only golf lesson of his life at exclusive Oakland Hills Country Club from the legendary Michigan professional Al Watrous, a PGA Tour player of the ’20s and ’30s who lost the 1926 Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St. Annes to Bobby Jones on the last two holes.

Flowering dogwoods and pink azaleas led Hatch to Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina. “How I ended up at Chapel Hill was serendipitous,” he says. “It was a pretty place in the springtime.” Packing the rigorous training of Cranbrook in his duffel, Hatch found a niche at UNC. “I kind of flourished because I had a lot of skills but I didn’t have any ideas.

Then I suddenly got ideas when I went to college.”

He graduated in 1971 with a degree in English, a penchant for crafting poetry with a short shelf life, and a yellow Volkswagen beetle, the import he was given as a graduation present by his mother, Janet, the second of the three wives of the consummate Detroit pitchman. The first stop was Glacier National Park in Montana, where he spent nine months painting cabins, selling sporting goods and pumping gas. Then, echoing the advice of Horace Greeley, it was off to Santa Barbara, California, to find his college sweetheart, Jane West. “I drank tawny port in the afternoon and wrote bad poetry and just kind of sat around,” says Hatch. He read the voices of the day. Robert Bly. James Wright. Galway Kinnell. James Dickey. Kenneth Rexroth. John Berryman. Before long, West sent him back east.

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Monticello’s mountaintop in springtime

“My girlfriend dumped me for the fourth time, so I rode around the country to try to find a job as an English teacher,” says Hatch. He landed an interview at another private prep school, Lawrence Academy, outside Boston, that needed someone to teach English and coach hockey, a reasonable fit for the former center of the Cranbrook hockey team. On the way, he stopped in Michigan, where his mother insisted he get a haircut. “She made me go to her Lebanese hairdresser to shave off my beard and give me a haircut,” he says. Depending on your generational frame of reference, the resulting bowl cut looked like Prince Valiant, Jimmy Connors, Moe or Lloyd Christmas.

While he was waiting to learn whether or not he was destined to be the new coach of the LA Spartans, Hatch stayed with friends in East Falmouth on Cape Cod, not far from Hatchville, where his ancestors disembarked sometime in the 1620s. Destiny had its own plan. “One of them started talking about the joys of organic gardening,” he says. “When I didn’t get the job as an English teacher, I decided to go back to Chapel Hill.” He earned a few dollars delivering the News and Observer and planted a garden. Enter Sandhills Community College.

During his senior year at Chapel Hill, Hatch had been a student teacher at Pinecrest High School, where he was assigned to Rick Lewis’ senior world literature class. They would both wind up at SCC, Lewis as the eventual head of the English department and Hatch as a 1974 graduate of the landscape gardening program that celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. “It seemed like the kind of thing that would be useful to me, not really knowing the difference between a peony and a pine tree,” says Hatch. “Growing up I never did any labor. I never worked. I didn’t know how to do things. You learned a lot of nuts and bolts skills. It was a really valuable thing for me. I look back on it fondly.”

At the time the program was led by Fred Huette and Bill Hunt. “It was

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based on the Wisley school of horticulture in England,” says Hatch. “It had these two great kind of founding fathers.” Hatch describes Huette as “an oldtimey English gardener” and Hunt as “the dandy, in his suit and bow tie, he seemed like he just walked out of the lecture hall at Oxford University.” Hatch lived in what he describes as “a little bit of a hovel” in horse country off May Street in Southern Pines on $100 a month. His car broke down and he couldn’t afford to fix it. “Peter would always wear these worn-out tennis shoes, holes everywhere, including the soles,” says Lewis. “I have a picture of the two of us standing at the rear of my Volkswagen bus.”

Hatch became exhibit A for continuing education. “Something we’re sort of proud of here at Sandhills,” says SCC President Dr. John Dempsey, “is that we have as many university graduates who transferred to us as we have our graduates who transferred to university. That’s because, believe it or not, some university graduates — who may be English majors — find that they cannot make a decent living, so they come back here to learn a trade. And that’s exactly what Peter did.”

It was a trade that transported him back in time.

For three-and-a-half years following his graduation from Sandhills, Hatch worked in Winston-Salem at Old Salem recreating the authentic landscape.

“I was their first horticulturalist involved in restoring these 18th century Moravian gardens. There was a woman there who was in charge of the landscape restoration committee — Flora Ann Bynum. It took her five minutes to say her name: FloraAnnLeeBynum. She was this indomitable figure, a great fighter for historically accurate gardens. She corresponded with some of the great botanical scholars in the world. It was a controversial and radical idea to begin thinking of landscape as another reflection of the character of the times, in the same way that the architecture of the buildings or the artifacts found in

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the culture of the society were. It was an unusual idea for people. They hadn’t been exposed to the idea that these people had utilitarian orchards and gardens and that their yards didn’t have grass in them — they were swept yards — and they had woodpiles and weeds and bee skips. It was a fun thing to get involved with and what made Salem particularly unique was they had wonderful documentary records of what the gardens were like. These Germans kept really good records. They hired me in part, I think, because I was an English major, which was amazing. They looked at it as a job involving historical research and interpretation. It was a terrific first job.”

Jefferson’s Monticello was about to embark on a similar journey, and Hatch had a unique set of credentials for the trip. The first project would be the recreation of Jefferson’s grove. In consultation with Monticello’s architectural historian, William L. Beiswanger, a Connecticut landscape architect, Rudy J. Favretti, put together the plan to revive the 18-acre grove. “I was hired specifically to finish that and also with the assumption that the next big project was to be restoring Jefferson’s vegetable garden and orchard,” says Hatch.

The Monticello that Hatch first encountered was different than the one he left behind in 2012. “It was a tourist shrine. Slavery was never mentioned. The interpretation was very kind of 1950s,” he says. “I got to see Monticello evolve over the time I was there from sort of a mom-and-pop operation to a sophisticated and professional educational and preservation organization. There was a real tradition of scholarship that emerged and became more and more intense. Scholarship drove the mission. That was an inspiring thing that sent me on my way.”

Over his 35 years as director of gardens and grounds at Monticello, Hatch was responsible for maintaining the Thomas Jefferson Foundation’s 2,400 acres; was the project manager for the Thomas Jefferson Parkway; wrote four books, the most recent being A Rich Spot of Earth” — Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello; supervised a large crew of groundsmen, more than a few of whom, hailing from Virginia’s hills and hollows, were a bit rough around the edges; and lectured in 38 states on Jefferson and the history

of garden plants. “Writing books about Thomas Jefferson was easy compared to the challenges of keeping alive noble 200-year-old trees, preventing the deer from eating my cabbages, and sustaining irrigation water for the gardens through a long, hot Virginia summer,” says Hatch.

There is a rich nuance in viewing one of the faces on Mount Rushmore through the prism of his passion for gardening. “I described the vegetable garden as sort of an Ellis Island of new and unusual plants that came from the four corners of the globe,” says Hatch. “Jefferson documented planting some 170 varieties of fruit, 330 varieties of vegetables and some 140 species of shade and ornamental trees, and on and on. He had this really expansive passion for plants.

“There was a bunch of stuff we had trouble growing. The Arikara bean. It came from the Arikara tribe in the northern Dakotas. Meriwether Lewis spent the winter of 1803 in North Dakota near what is now Bismarck. They were all starving. They survived by trading trinkets for Indian corn. These northern Indian tribes had this really sophisticated agriculture and horticulture in that they developed a lot of bean, corn, squash, tobacco varieties to adapt to this harsh Northern Plains climate, where it’s incredibly dry and hot in the summer but incredibly cold in the winter. Jefferson was trying out a lot of these agricultural corn and bean varieties sent back by Lewis. We often had a plot exhibiting Lewis and Clark plants.”

Failure wasn’t frowned upon, it was part of the package. “There was this great clash of history versus horticulture in the sense that people expect a tidy, manicured place, but it really wasn’t like that,” says Hatch. “Jefferson planted a lot of things that died. The fact that he was doing all this stuff meant that a lot of things didn’t work. I loved that contradiction. I loved that ambiguity about my job. It would probably drive most people crazy. Jefferson had fun gardening.

He had these wonderful enthusiasms for cultivated plants. ‘The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.’ Jefferson’s quote is not just a statement about gardening, it’s a life lesson.”

Jefferson’s gardening lessons travel as comfortably through time as his

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words. “There are a lot of different kinds of gardens at Monticello. There’s the grove, which is really an interesting idea — that America’s ideal garden is carved out of the forest, clearing and thinning trees, opening up undergrowth and planting hardy perennial flowers in ground cover,” says Hatch.

“In Southern Pines they have those great longleaf pine forests that are kind of a natural grove.

There are a lot of Jefferson conceits that people can use when they make their own garden. Try new things. Do successive plantings, growing things through the wintertime, which you can do in Southern Pines really easily. Grow some of Jefferson’s favorites. He had some greatest hits of fruits, flowers, vegetables, trees and shrubs. In the vegetable garden there were things like tennis ball lettuce or tree onions or pineapple melons — you can get the seeds from Monticello. You can purchase plants at Monticello that are offshoots of original trees or things that Jefferson particularly cherished, a real tangible link to the past.”

Hatch’s days are no longer filled with supervising The Dukes of Bacon Hollow or chasing down Chinaberry trees to replace the ones killed off by a winter freeze. He lives 20 miles west of Monticello, where his wife, Lucile, still works, on a gravel road that winds through an apple orchard. Their two daughters, Rosemary and Olivia, one a hydrologist, the other a neurologist, are grown and gone.

Hatch has a small garden, a creek in the backyard and a wood-burning stove. He plays the occasional game of golf, carrying his clubs at courses as distinct from Oakland Hills as a Queen Anne’s lace is from a Lady Slipper orchid. He tends to a hiking trail in the Shenandoah National Park for the fun of it. “In my new life I’ve been more of a botanist,” he says. “I go out into the mountains, spend a lot of time searching for rare colonies of plants growing outside the normal range.”

A job he seems to have come to naturally. PS Jim Moriarty is senior editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com.

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A Legacy of Imagination Why Weymouth’s creative soul endures

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f words well chosen are music to the soul, the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities has been the South’s premier concert hall for almost a century.

James Boyd, who built the house on Weymouth Heights in rambling increments early in the 20th century, wrote his four novels, a book of short stories, his many poems and his voluminous correspondence there, and many of the great American writers of the last century visited the Boyds, talking writing in the great room and library and whiling away the evenings over drinks and witty banter.

For the last 40 years, Weymouth has served as a retreat for North Carolina writers who have created literary works of enduring value: Clyde Edgerton, Betty Adcock, Guy Owen, Robert Morgan, Margaret Maron, Fred Chappell, Shelby Stephenson, Wiley Cash — the list of established writers who’ve enjoyed residencies at Weymouth numbers in the hundreds.

Writers residencies and art colonies abound — Poets & Writers lists more than 300 worldwide — but few such entities boast the literary heritage of the Weymouth Center. Author/editor Jonathan Daniels claimed that the Southern Literary Renaissance began in the living room at the Boyd house, but Weymouth doesn’t need hyperbole to bolster its literary credentials. There’s no doubt F. Scott Fitzgerald held forth on the theory of the novel when he visited with the Boyds for three days in June of 1935, and Thomas Wolfe climbed through an unlocked window into the great room on a January morning in 1937, settling in for a fourday respite. Sherwood Anderson was a frequent guest who lingered for weeks, and Maxwell Perkins, the Scribner’s editor whose clients monopolized the 20th century literary canon, enjoyed visits at the Boyd house. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green was James Boyd’s best friend.

Surely Weymouth’s literary mojo works its magic on contemporary writers in search of inspiration, but the old house’s ambience is also a contributing factor: Slanting afternoon light decants through ancient wavy green glass windows, inspiring moments of pure vision, the jumbled ups and downs and switchbacks of the meandering hallway in the writers’ quarters are likely to encourage inventiveness and awaken the imagination, and each bedroom, uniquely its own universe and named for a writer who visited during the last century, conjures up words ensconced indelibly on the American psyche.

When the house is closed to the public, visiting writers are free to wander rooms, including the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, where voices eloquently resonate. For those romantic nature poets yearning for the natural world, Weymouth’s meticulously maintained grounds with their longleaf pines and springtime weeping cherries are inviting enough, and less than a mile east is the boundary of Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve, donated to the state by the Boyds, with its towering pines, wildflowers, wire grass and rare species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker, pine barrens tree frog, bog spicebush, and fox squirrel.

Best-selling author Wiley Cash, who’s stayed at Weymouth three times in recent years, communed with the ghosts: “I wrote and revised a chapter of my recent novel, The Last Ballad, at Weymouth in the fall of 2015. I was in the Maxwell Perkins room, and I joked with the other residents that Perkins was known for cutting thousands of words from Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel, and I was hoping his spirit in the room would help me add thousands of words to the book I was working on. He granted my wish.”

Margaret Maron, the author of 30 books, has been a regular writer in residence, accompanied by a group of fellow mystery writers: “We call ourselves the Weymouth 7,” says Maron, “because it was at Weymouth that we held our first writer’s retreat — Mary Kay Andrews, Brynn Bonner, Diane Chamberlain, Katy Munger, Sarah Shaber, Alexandra Sokoloff, and me. For one heady week, we met every morning to bounce ideas off each other, then retired to our separate solitary spots and wrote until it was time to gather for supper. We’ve scattered now, but those first annual visits helped produce at least 20 books and we shall always be grateful that Weymouth welcomed us so graciously. (Although we could have done without the ghost!).”

The Visiting Writers Program has come a long way in the last four decades since the Friends of Weymouth acquired the Boyd house from Sandhills Community

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College, and Sam Ragan, Buffie Ives (Adlai Stevenson’s sister), Guy Owen, Paul Green and other luminaries conceived of Weymouth as a writers’ retreat. At an organizational meeting in the dining room, Guy Owen, author of The Ballad of the FlimFlam Man, joked, “We can put the pornographic writers in the attic of the barn,” to which Ms. Ives, always proper and outspoken, immediately objected: “There will be no pornographic writers at Weymouth!” No one attempts to influence what is written at Weymouth, and it’s unlikely that any of the writers in residence have sidestepped, in the service of middle-class good taste, the truth as they find it. Thus the program has attracted a wide variety of authors from Tom Wolfe (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and I Am Charlotte Simmons) to Oprah’s Book Club author Robert Morgan (Gap Creek and Boone).

Katrina Denza, who directs the Visiting Writers program, admits that it’s a balancing act. “We try to have double the number of new writers so that every level is represented. And we’re always working to improve the program by having the writers give readings open to the public. Recently, Pat Riviere-Seel read from her memoir-in-progress at Belle Meade and Sharon Swanson showed a film she made about Elizabeth Spencer at Penick. Writers and poets have also volunteered for Weymouth’s Write-On Camp in the summer, and they’ve acted as judges for our Moore County Writers’ Competition as well as serve on the Cos Barnes Fiction Fellowship Committee.”

During a November residency, Clyde Edgerton, who wrote the conclusion to Where Trouble Sleeps at Weymouth in the late ’90s, was back at work on a new novel.

He brought his banjo along and on the last Tuesday of the month, sat in with the Weymouth Song Circle, entertaining everyone with his original songs and stories.

Residencies are open to North Carolina natives, current residents, or to those with significant ties to the state. Each applicant must submit a list of publications — poems, short stories, screenplays, novels, articles or works of nonfiction — and a plan to work on a specific project during the stay. A minimum residency of one week is required.

Weymouth provides a room with a desk, bed, reading chair, blankets and pillow — nothing luxurious but more than adequate for the writer who seeks solitude.

Linens, toiletries and traveling expenses are the participant’s responsibility. Wi-Fi access is limited to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame study. The writers’ area of the house has a full kitchen, three baths, a sitting room, covered veranda, and four bedrooms.

“We have a wish list of improvements for the program,” says Denza. “We are constantly looking to upgrade the writers’ experience at Weymouth. We’d like to provide meals for the writers. Unfortunately, we don’t yet have the resources to do that, but there are excellent restaurants a few blocks away on Broad Street.”

The writers who stay at Weymouth aren’t there for the cuisine. They believe in words the way a scientist believes in carbon — absolutely. Words permeate the ancient plaster walls, and each new writer in residence applies a fresh layer of literary history.

“There is something extra that lives in one who stays at Weymouth,” writes former Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson, “the combo of magic and desire in being a writer in residence. I feel nostalgia for the Anderson room as I write those sentences. The joy and glow of wonder in those stories. And in that room I stayed in.”

Shortly after Fitzgerald’s 1935 visit with the Boyds, he wrote of happening upon his younger and more optimistic self: “I was with him again — for an instant I had the good fortune to share his dreams . . . And there are still times when I creep up on him . . . on a spring night in Carolina when it is so quiet that you can hear a dog barking in the next county.”

He may have been recalling his time at the Boyd house, where 80 years on writers continue to find inspiration in the fragile stillness of a Southern night. PS Stephen E. Smith is a retired professor and the author of seven books of poetry and prose.

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A Tradition of Culture The many lives of Campbell House

By R ay Owen

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urviving through myriad incarnations, Southern Pines’ Campbell House is one of the region’s most significant landmarks, owing its existence to the Boyd family. Once part of their Weymouth estate, for more than 100 years it has been a center of culture, informing, influencing and enhancing civic life.

It is an outstanding example of a Country Place-era estate created over time by a remarkable series of individuals who began settling in the region around the turn of the 20th century. The fledgling Sandhills resorts were rising from the dusty remains of a former turpentine and lumber industry outpost. The backdrop for this transformation was the greater social movement of the day, a reaction to the cultural upheavals brought about by industrialization and urbanization. The Sandhills fit perfectly within the country life

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paradigm, appealing to America’s growing fascination with vernacular culture and native folk.

The lives of Campbell House comprise four significant periods: first the home of James Maclin Brodnax, then expanded into the original James Boyd House with additions from local Colonial houses; next moved and enlarged at its present location by Jackson Boyd; later the home of General Motors heir Maj. William Durant Campbell; and now a municipal property, home to Southern Pines Recreation & Parks Department and the Arts Council of Moore County.

The first period opens with James Boyd’s 1904 purchase of a sizable portion of land on the eastern ridge above downtown Southern Pines. Within months, the matter of building a residence was altered by the death of his kinsman,

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Jackson Boyd and family on the porch James Brodnax, who had built a two-story Colonial Revival-style home for himself on the property. James Boyd, grandfather of writer James Boyd and his brother Jackson, enlarged the Brodnax House into an imposing mansion, incorporating building elements dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Brodnax-Boyd House was located 100 feet in front of present-day Weymouth Center.

In 1921, the Brodnax-Boyd House was separated into two blocks and both moved by mule teams across Connecticut Avenue, where they became the core of two new residences. One part was refitted as a residence for Jackson Boyd (Jack) and his family, and it remained their home, following major rebuilding in 1936 after a fire. Another part of the Brodnax-Boyd House is now the dwelling standing at 435 E. New Hampshire Ave. Jack and his brother, writer James Boyd, founded the Moore County Hounds in the winter of 1914. They saw this aristocratic sport in democratic terms and felt that it should belong to the town. Proper dress or not, anyone who wished to hunt was invited to come along, so huntsmen in formal attire rode with farmers on horses more accustomed to plowing than jumping fences.

As a captain in the Marines, Jack was in charge of canine training at Camp Lejeune. Being from blueblood hunt country, he was a trainer, breeder, master of 70 foxhounds. Jack taught his war dogs to march in cadence, heel on regular intervals, and perform ordered drills. More training prepared them for track and attack missions and watch duty. His division’s canine records included letters of commendation, citations and a discharge certificate. In many instances, a formal photograph of the dog was included upon promotion of the dog to sergeant.

Jack’s eldest son, John Boyd, was killed in action at Guadalcanal, and the local VFW post is named for him. Those who knew Jack Boyd say that his son’s death was a severe blow and he left Southern Pines shortly after the war.

In 1946, Major W.D. Campbell purchased the Jackson Boyd House and he made extensive changes, facing the unpretentious frame structure with ballastbrick from Charleston, South Carolina. The same brick was used in the formal

landscaping and walled garden at the rear of the house. In 1966 the Campbell family gave their property to the town, asking that it be used for the cultural and social enrichment of the community.

Evidence of history can be found throughout the building, with a striking contrast between the formal entrance and the informality of the large pine-clad room on the east wing. This room, known today as the Brown Gallery, encompasses the most visible remains of Brodnax-Boyd House with its circa 1820s mantel and beaded hand-planed paneling.

In Jackson Boyd’s time the main staircase rose at the back of the foyer, but the Campbells reconfigured it to rise at the front, opening up the back wall with glass doors. The foyer and former dining room, now the White Gallery, remain unchanged from the late 1940s with marble-chip terrazzo flooring, marble staircase and decorative wrought-iron railing. A medallion graces the entry hall floor. Inscribed in Greek, it depicts an African antelope bagged by Maj. Campbell for the Museum of Natural History in New York.

The Campbells and their daughter, Margot, were active in many civic and community affairs. Mrs. Campbell was one of the founders of the Southern Pines Garden Club. Maj. Campbell’s interests included the Red Cross, Boy Scouts and model trains and he built the Train House to house his collection.

An Eagle Scout in his boyhood, Campbell became a leader in the national and international movement, an activity that eventually called the family away from their home in the pines. Born in Flint, Michigan, Maj. Campbell was the grandson of William Crapo Durant, the co-founder of General Motors and Chevrolet, and the founder of Frigidaire. Campbell graduated from Princeton University in 1929 and initially pursued a career in banking. During World War II, he was a battery commander and retired from Fort Bragg in 1946 as a major. He became involved in Scouting as an adult at the suggestion of its British founder, Robert Baden-Powell. His travels convinced him that Scouting could do much for young people and he took a special interest in furthering the organization in developing countries with programs tailored to local needs.

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That philosophy and his personal commitment saw a doubling of the Scouts’ membership in the 1970s and 1980s, chiefly in the Third World. A philanthropist, Maj. Campbell was also on the executive committee of the Mystic Seaport Museum and a director of the National Audubon Society.

When the Campbells gifted the property to the town, a board of directors was appointed, bylaws were established, an on-site director was hired, and a vigorous program developed to put the property to use. The Southern Pines Information Center was installed in the main house, and the Stoneybrook Racing Association moved into its west wing office.

The Boy Scouts were among the early organizations at Campbell House, along with offices for the Humane Society of Moore County and Moore County Historical Association. In the late 1960s, a small golf museum was set up in the former dining room, and this collection was later turned over to the World Golf Hall of Fame.

In 1972, Southern Pines established a year-round recreation and parks de-

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partment centered on the property. This program is now the biggest user of the site with its offices on the second floor of the main house. The first floor is the headquarters of the Arts Council of Moore County, where they maintain two galleries that display the work of different artists every month and a sales gallery that showcases the work of regional artists.

Thousands of visitors have enjoyed Campbell House, hundreds of volunteers have given time and energy to the fulfillment of its purpose, and a small, dedicated group has taken personal responsibility for its success.

Moss gathers on the ancient lawn as azaleas bloom late against fading bricks.

Across the lot, live oaks keep the view — if they could speak, what stories would they tell, wide spreading boughs, nothing missed in their branches. Some say the house is haunted and at twilight the apparition of a woman drifts across the stairs, a lingering reminder of lives that have come before. PS Ray Owen is a local historian, who works for the Arts Council of Moore County.

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Bold Is Beautiful

Surprises await inside a timeless exterior

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f ever a house made beautiful music that house must be Stone Oaks Farm: — The lilting remnants of an Irish brogue, from flame-haired Mary Dunlop, who chose crystal chandeliers for her kitchen.

— The Canadian inflection of crack golfer, hockey fan and guitarist Craig Dunlop.

— A duet of aboriginal art collectors.

— The echoes of grandchildren on summer vacation.

— The patriotic anthems of Craig and Mary’s mother countries.

— The purr of a foundling kitten who transitioned from barn to master bedroom.

— Everywhere, any time, music of many sorts from an indoor-outdoor sound system. Right now, country tunes top the playlist. “They make me feel like dancing,” Mary says. So Mary and Craig hopped over to Nashville — and danced.

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— Should the house itself find a voice, only a bold, booming baritone would permeate 6,000 square feet on six acres, with terrace, pasture and barn. Because only bold folks would purchase a modest cottage and attach a 4,000-square-foot, three-story addition walled with 350,000 pounds of Tennessee fieldstone laid by a family of masons from Troy. That endeavor alone, crowned by a Celtic knot, took a year. The result deserves a historic places marker. As for time and expense, Craig has no regrets. “There’s nothing as timeless and classic as stone.”

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he Dunlop’s ballad rings familiar.

“We’ve been coming to Pinehurst for years,” Mary begins. Both are serious golfers. They kept a small house, sufficient for getaways.

Then, out for a drive one fine day in 2004 they came upon the cottage, built in 1929, tucked behind massive pin oaks on Midland Road.

They bought it immediately with the intention of creating a family homestead that looked the part. Never mind they were living in Milan, with an apartment in Paris.

Previous addresses have included Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. After cruel Alberta winters, Pinehurst was paradise.

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“Until now, I’ve never lived in one place for more than six years,” Mary says.

Another two years passed before they occupied Stone Oaks. By then, a cottage of unknown provenance had become the core from which a new residence radiated.

First-timers on a walkthrough had better leave a trail of breadcrumbs or arm their GPS. The floor plan is complicated.

Mary starts in the kitchen, accessed by a long outdoor gallery (don’t trip over the rocking chairs) leading to the three-car garage over which hang American, Canadian and Irish flags beneath a Celtic knot. According to a commemorative pillow, the couple became American citizens on Oct. 28, 2016. “I love kitchens but I hate to cook,” says Mary. She pored over magazines until finding the right design: two islands, one granite-topped for the sink and breakfast bar, the other with a chopping surface of polished African Iroko wood. Above the range, a backsplash of Irish Connemara marble.

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a desk and combination pantry-coat closet, bar and butler’s pantry, two dishwashers and numerous ovens facilitate entertaining.

Mary couldn’t decide on lighting fixtures until the crystal chandeliers caught her eye at Pottery Barn. She likes “quirky,” best illustrated by original wooden street signs from Pinehurst, which she found at the dump. Now, they border the ceiling in kitchen and sunroom.

“This was the living room,” Mary says of her dining room long enough to accommodate a 12-foot table of stained wood planks on a central support, “so nobody gets their legs tangled up underneath.” On the walls, Canadian paintings of startling form and color; some appear lifted from Stravinsky’s The Firebird ballet, others from an anthropology textbook. Across from the dining room what had been a tiny bedroom now serves as a petite parlor with white damask-upholstered pieces, pale avocado walls and rug plus a second quirk: artsy photos of cigar smokers’ heads, old and wizened.

“We saw them in a Paris restaurant . . . the owner told us where to find (the photographer),” Mary recalls. On the mantel facing the smokers stands a delicate antique clock belonging to Mary’s mother — or a French king.

Photographs, hundreds, hang everywhere. Besides chronicling family history on all four walls of a powder room, they commemorate athletic and professional achievements. One corner is devoted to musicians — Elvis, The Beatles and, as a joke, Justin Bieber. The sunroom features a Tiger Woods retrospective and more hockey.

If the parlor looks seldom-used, not so Mary’s “place,” a clubby den with wood paneling, bookshelves, oversized leather chairs, fishing trophies and assorted golf memorabilia. Yes, that’s Craig with Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, also Canadian parliamentarians and golf notables. Mary feels comfortable here, especially when Craig is away: “I walk in, put my feet up, turn on the fire, pour a glass of wine . . .” and relax.

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pstairs dormer guest bedrooms on the cottage side are a nice size, decorated traditionally. Cross over into the addition and everything gets bigger. Much bigger. The Big Room (usually described as “great” or “family”) with more built-in bookcases, a three-story vaulted ceiling with skylights, exposed rafters and beams, a circular candle fixture suspended from the apex, stone fireplace with raised hearth, maroon brocade on sofas and chairs set a Tudor tone contradicted only by an enormous folk-art painting leaning on the mantel. Side walls are entirely paned windows and doors, providing light to offset the dark woods. On either side stand dining room tables, one from Mary’s family, the other from Craig’s.

“We like stairs,” is Mary’s explanation for the open staircase with balcony over the Big Room, leading to the master suite: a bed-sitting room with fireplace, a quirky three-legged coffee table made from a tree trunk cross section, an unusual tiled shower room (no messy glass enclosures). Finally, Craig’s man cave extraordaire, with fitness equipment, steam and sauna, guitar display, office nook and bear skin with head, taken down by Craig himself, in Ontario.

Mary’s confluence of décor styles is her own, unassisted by professionals.

Furnishings in storage during their European sojourn have traveled from High Point to Canada and now back to Southern Pines. Enhancing these are two stunning family heirloom sideboards, various tables and an antique rocking chair belonging to Mary’s mother, reupholstered in a leopard print — delightfully quirky.

“We live outside in the summer,” Mary says, when their two daughters and four grandchildren arrive for six weeks. The terrace garden with path-

ways, raised beds and fire pit once hosted a Rooster’s Wife-style concert.

This postcard needs horses leaning over the paddock fence. For a while, the Dunlops boarded a few but no more. Instead, Mary has installed a vegetable garden that supplies the kitchen when she — or someone else — cooks. “I’ve forgotten how,” she says.

Stone Oaks is a home not only of voices but layers representing well-traveled lives. Along with eclectic art and furnishings Mary is not above levity, as in a ceramic figurine on the hall table, titled “Happily Dying of Chocolate.” The wood in the sunroom may have been rescued from a local barn but posters along the porch tease “Asylum for the Insane, Evaluation Center.” Giant glass and papier mâché pears adorn side tables in the Great Room. Mary boldly hangs Picasso’s familiar Girl Before a Mirror over a king-sized sleigh bed.

Even the land speaks for itself. Longleaf pines are absent, replaced by mature banks of rhododendron. The gnarled trunk of an ancient pin oak dominating the circular driveway resembles an elephant hide. Ivy entwines other trees.

“What I wanted was a comfortable, friendly, warm home, nothing antiseptic or pretentious,” Craig maintains. He likes that every room can be a separate living space, with its own personality. “I needed a home able to absorb my junk.

Walls covered with things and pictures add comfort.”

Mary concurs: “I didn’t want perfection, just a place where if you spill some wine, it’s OK.” Not to worry — there’s plenty more in the 600-bottle temperature-controlled wine cabinet. There’s probably a song for that, too, although more likely Frank Sinatra than Garth Brooks. PS

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Our Blooming Mascot An ode to azaleas

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Azalea shrubs, for the most part, are evergreen, reasonably fast growing, sturdy and undemanding. What’s not to love? They can be counted on to bloom reliably year after year, providing floral skirts and crinolines for the clouds of flowering cherries and dogwoods — a tableau that never fails to dazzle for a few short weeks every spring. Azaleas are a mascot any town can count on. By and large boasting a good life expectancy, they’re going to stay where you put them like lamp posts and park benches. The open azalea blossom, with its hallmark five stamens flaring out, suggests nothing so much as fertility, new life, the future about to unfold. Not a bad subliminal message for any place that wants to appear vibrant and forward looking. For many good reasons, over a dozen towns all across the United States — from Hamilton, New Jersey to Brookings, Oregon — have hit upon the idea of luring people with azalea-themed enticements, and it works.

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One of the advantages of living in the South is the broad spectrum of azaleas that are able to thrive. In the coastal regions, the size and lushness of the big, blousy indica hybrid generally makes an intense impact on garden visitors. If there’s one azalea that most people are familiar with, it would be the indica ‘Formosa’, an uber-dramatic magenta giant that tends to dominate wherever it’s planted.

The other two classic indicas for the Southeast are the snowy white ‘Mrs. G.G. Gerbing’ and the unbeatable shell pink ‘George L. Taber’ with delicately variegated petals and a sprinkling of freckles hiding in the hollow of each blossom’s center. The indicas thrive in hot, humid summers, performing best in slightly acidic soil with moderate moisture. They will grow and bloom in full sun as well as full shade, a feat not many plants can claim — although the perfect spot would be dappled sunlight. In areas like the Sandhills, kurumes are a better bet. Some of the favorites tend to be ‘Coral Bells’ with their soft, pink color; the fiery ‘Hershey’s Orange’; and the pure white ‘Snow’. Encore Azaleas®, which bloom in the spring and repeat again in fall, and come in all colors from red through pink, coral, orange and red, also do well.

For reasons of stamen count and somewhat obscure botanical taxonomy, azaleas were stripped of their classification as a standalone genus back in the 1700s and have had to live as two sub-genera of Rhododendron ever since. To a non-botanist this may seem arbitrary and capricious because rhododendrons — those mountain-loving evergreens with broad leaves and showy clusters of lavender, pink or white blossoms — seem pretty easy to distinguish from their azalea cousins. But they both have a remarkable history in common — which takes us to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event which scientists say happened some 66 million years ago and wiped out much of the planet’s flora and fauna including, of course, the dinosaurs.

A couple of million years prior to that event, before the last ankylosaurus exhaled its final breath and at a time when Africa was drifting ever so slowly away from South America, the first green shoot of the family Ericaceae pushed its way up through the Earth’s surface and began the job of photosynthesizing and reproducing.

And then, when just about everything else on Earth departed the planet for

good, members of the Ericaceae family hung in there. As the planet once again became hospitable to a large variety of plants, the family grew and evolved, eventually branching out into over 100 genera.

These now include modern-day heaths and heathers, blueberries, cranberries, mountain laurel, rhododendrons and azaleas (acid-loving lime-haters all). In particular, azaleas are part of a unique group of plants that use fungi called mycorrhizae, which colonize their roots and help them bring in water and nutrients in harsh and inhospitable conditions where other plants might not survive.

But how did we end up, 68 million years later, with these spectacular survivors in our backyards? The ancestors of most of our kurume, indica and other azalea hybrids originated in Japan, China or the Caucasus region, where they grew in the wild and were cultivated by gardeners for centuries before Europeans became aware of their existence. By the late 1600s, emissaries from the European continent had begun traipsing around Asia, sending home azalea specimens and seeds — and feeding the insatiable appetites of plant collectors in places like England, France and Holland. The love affair had begun, and by the 18th century it had grown into a serious trading enterprise.

Meanwhile, the American colonies were playing a major role in this transmigration of the Ericaceae family. From the Appalachians to the Southern swamps, amateur botanists like John Bartram and his sons were traveling by horseback and canoe, collecting native plant samples for their eager colleagues across the ocean. Prized among these were more than 25 species of native azaleas like the famous, fragrant, white “swamp honeysuckle” azalea (Rhododendron viscosum) and the “pinxter flower” azalea (R. periclymenoides), which were among the very first azaleas ever grown in England and became the basis for many popular hybrids.

And crisscrossing the Atlantic in the other direction, the first non-native azaleas (offspring of the original travelers from Asia) had already landed in Mobile, Alabama, by the mid-1700s and were brought to gardens in Charleston and New Orleans in the following decades. From Virginia down to Florida and all along the Gulf Coast, as it became apparent that these flowering beauties were perfectly suited to the local climates and conditions, azaleas became the backbone of the Southern garden, even venturing inland. It’s no surprise, however, that the favorites to this day remain the splashy, shameless indicas, which more than any other plant give us that hit of beauty, sensuality, abandon and luxury we welcome as we greet the rebirth of spring in our gardens. PS Barbara Sullivan is the author of Garden Perennials for the Coastal South and a frequent lecturer on gardening topics

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I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

–Ruth Stout

By Ash Alder If the flowering cherry tree could speak, she wouldn’t tell of her own beauty.

Words could never capture it.

But with her powder soft voice, she might sing of the garden: banksia rose spilling over with fragrant yellow blooms; copper mobile, whirling beneath the redbud; foxglove, swooning from the tender kiss of the nectar-drunk hummingbird.

She might sing of bluebirds or violets or kissing in the rain.

Or maybe she does.

Yes, can’t you hear her? Voice like a siren. Sultry as a whisper at the nape of your neck.

Listen.

She serenades the squirrel babes, blind and naked, whose mother built their nest with stuffing from the neighbor’s patio cushions.

At twilight, she hums low while the pregnant doe clears a row of tulips sweet as candy.

Sunny jonquils harmonize with whippoorwill — Look-at-me! Look-at-me! — but the deer moseys onward.

As cherry maiden stifles laughter, all the world sings back.

While the Azalea’s Still Blooming . . .

Plant the eggplants, beets and melons! Pumpkins, squash, green beans and peppers! And if you’re looking for a down-home summer — the white bread and black pepper type — sew the cukes and maters in the soft, cool earth.

Asparagus Season

Greek myth tells that spring is when Demeter, mother-goddess of harvest and fertility, celebrates the six-month return of her beautiful daughter, Persephone (goddess of the Underworld), by making the earth lush and fruitful once again.

But what on earth did she do with all those tender green shoots of asparagus? Quiche. Soup. Risotto. Frittata.

Asparagus custard tart . . .

In the spirit of Easter (Sunday, April 1), how about a festive beverage to serve up with that asparagus-studded brunch?

And don’t forget all those garden parties this month.

Carrot Bloody Mary (Serves 4) Ingredients 32 ounces carrot juice 8 ounces vodka 6 ounces pickle juice juice from one-half lemon 5 dashes Worcestershire sauce 3 teaspoons crab seasoning (more for rimming) 3 teaspoons black pepper 2 teaspoons dill 2 teaspoons garlic powder 2 teaspoons ground ginger 2 teaspoons horseradish 2 teaspoons hot sauce (modify by your heat preference) Instructions Add all ingredients into a pitcher, then stir until combined.

Slide the flesh of a lemon around the rim of each pint glass, then place the rims onto a plate of crab seasoning to lace them.

Fill pint glasses with ice, then pour the carrot juice mixture over top.

— garnish with pickled vegetables, celery, or tomatoes. Enjoy!

The ancient Celts looked to the trees for knowledge and wisdom. According to Celtic tree astrology, those born from April 15 to May 12 associate with willow, an enchanted tree that symbolizes love, fertility, beauty and grace. Creative, patient and highly intuitive, willow people are mystical by nature. They are most compatible with birch (December 24 to January 20) and ivy (September 30 to October 27) signs.

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OUTPOST BOOK SALES. 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Monday– Saturday. The April monthly sale at the Given Book Shop features Gardening, Golf/Sports and Travel — buy one, get one free. The author sale features N.C. authors and interests (buy one, get one). Some exclusions apply. Given Outpost and Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-7002.

MASTER GARDENER HELPLINE. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. weekdays, March 1 through October 31. If you have a question or need help with plant choices, call the Moore County Cooperative Extension Office. Walk-in consultations are available during the same hours at the Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. If possible, bring a plant sample or photos. Info: (910) 947-3188.

Continuing through Saturday, April 7

10TH ANNUAL PEEPS DIORAMA CONTEST. The Contest ends April 7, with judging April 9. The contest, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, invites participants to submit a diorama depicting their favorite book with Peeps© as the main characters. Digital videos are also accepted. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Continuing through Saturday, April 21

CHAGALL ART EXHIBIT. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. “Chagall: The Story of Exodus.” Lithographs by early Modernist artist and illustrator Marc Chagall. Admission free. David McCune International Art Gallery, Methodist University, 5400 Ramsey St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 425-5379 or www.davidmccunegallery.org.

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Sunday, April 1

EASTER EGG-Venture. 3–4:30 p.m. This Easterthemed adventure will include activities across the meadow and prizes at the end. It is designed for 4- to 10-year-olds accompanied by an adult, but all are welcome to join.

Weymouth Woods Nature Preserve Boyd Tract, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

Sunday, April 1—30

JOY OF ART STUDIO. Joy Hellman offers classes and workshops for all ages in journaling, painting, drawing, fiber and multimedia. She also holds retreats and other events for women to support, nourish and encourage creativity and personal development. Class times and prices vary. Unless otherwise stated, classes are held at Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., B, Southern Pines. Call (910) 528-7283 or visit www.joyof-art.com for a complete list of events this month.

Monday, April 2

SCAVANGER HUNT FOR YOUNG. 3–4 p.m. For ages 3–12 years. Hula-hoop, skip rope, crab walk and negotiate obstacles to follow clues to prizes with this fitness-themed hunt. Top off the fun with make-your-own-ice cream sundaes.

Children must be accompanied by an adult. Cosponsored with Capital Bank. Campbell House Park, 450 E. New Hampshire Ave. and 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463 or www.southernpines.net.

Tuesday, April 3 and 4

ART CLASS. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Enhanced Acrylics, taught by Pat McMahon. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or www.artistleague.org.

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Wednesday, April 4 IRISH CONCERT. 7 p.m. “A Spirited Evening of Music,” presented by the Sister Cities International Music Exchange Program, featuring local and Irish musicians. Admission is free. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines.

Info: (910) 315-4323.

Wednesday, April 4 and 5

ART CLASS. 1–4 p.m. “Drawing Out of the Box,” taught

by Barbara Sickenberger. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Wednesday, April 4 — May 9

BASIC HATHA YOGA. 9–10 a.m. (Wednesdays through May 17) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for adults age 18 and older who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $40/resident; $80/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www. pinehurstrec.org.

TAI CHI. 10:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. (Wednesdays through May 9) This course is taught by Tai Chi Master Instructor Lee Holbrook for adults ages 18+ and focuses on three styles of Tai Chi: Yang, Wu, and Beijing. Cost: $33/resident; $66/ non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Thursday, April 5

MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children, especially ages 2 through 5, and their families. This event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

COOKING CLASS. 5–8 p.m. “Picadillo from La Isla

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Accompanied by sweet plantain, this will be a dish you will enjoy recreating for your family. Instructor: Chef Angela Webb. $75. Lifelong Learning Institute, Sandhills Community College, Russell Dining Room, Little Hall, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For info and to register: (910) 695-3980 or (800) 338-3944, ext. 3980.

CAMEO ARTHOUSE THEATRE. 7:30 p.m. Folk singer Jonathan Byrd is live in concert. Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 day of, available at the box office or www.theroosterswife.org.

Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-6633.

Thursdays, April 5—May 10

INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI. 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m.

(Thursdays through May 10) Instructor Lee Holbrook focuses on refining the Yang style for participants who already have a basic knowledge of Tai Chi. Cost: $33/resident; $66/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 2951900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

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COOKING CLASS. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. “Picadillo from La Isla Bonita.” Picadillo is a stewed hash-style dish of ground

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Accompanied by sweet plantain, this will be a dish you will enjoy recreating for your family. Instructor: Chef Angela Webb. $75. Lifelong Learning Institute, Sandhills Community College, Russell Dining Room, Little Hall, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For info and to register: (910) 695-3980 or (800) 338-3944, ext. 3980.

ART EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION. 5–7 p.m. “Mix it up — Anything Goes.” Exhibit runs from April 6 through Thursday, April 26. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artistleague.org.

ACMC ART EXHIBIT OPENING. 6–8 p.m. “Palustris: Celebrating Longleaf through the Arts.” This exhibit at the Arts Council of Moore County features art inspired by the natural world. At the opening reception, meet participating artists Brady Beck, Linda Dalton, Sharon Ferguson, Janette Hopper, Diana Russ, Caroline Young and Nanette Zeller. Also featured is a historical retrospective of the history and culture of the Southern Pines Garden Club from 1948 until present day. The exhibit runs until April 27, gallery hours. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) or 692-2787 or kate@mooreart.org.

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Gisele SUNDAY, APRIL 8TH AT 1PM

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Massenet’s Cendrillon SATURDAY, APRIL 28 AT 1 PM

FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 6–10 p.m. Jazz Fest. Jazz bands and a cappella groups from NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, UNC Pembroke, Methodist University, Fayetteville State University and FTCC perform. Food, beer and wine will be available for purchase. Tickets: $25/advanced; $20/military; $10/nondrinking; $30/Day of; $45/VIP package. Festival Park, 335 Ray Ave., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 433-4690 or www. fayettevillesymphony.org.

Saturday, April 7

SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. N.C. Science Festival. Children and parents can explore science by visiting different stations set up inside and outside the library. Activities and crafts all highlight science. Given Memorial Library/Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022.

SINGER-SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND. 7:30–9:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30). In Nashville style, songwriters Becca Rae, Jason Adamo, Dean Driver and Abigail Dowd take turns playing a song, then explaining the meaning behind the melodies and lyrics. Tickets: $14/GA; $18/VIP. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

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69TH ANNUAL SPRING MATINEE RACES. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Gates open at 11 a.m., opening ceremonies are at 1 p.m., and races begin at 1:30. Annual harness races with trotters and pacers. Bleacher seating will be available for general admission, and food and beverages will be available for purchase. Admission is $5 (children age 12 and under are free). Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. (910) 414-0919.

BOLSHOI BALLET LIVE FROM MOSCOW IN HD. 12:55 p.m. Giselle. Svetlana Zakharova, in this ultimate ballerina role, is a vengeful spirit who returns after death to make her unfaithful lover, portrayed by Sergei Polunin, dance until his death. Tickets: $25. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or www. sunrisetheater.com.

MILL PRONG HOUSE ANNUAL MEETING AND OPEN HOUSE. 2–5 p.m. Dr. Michael Newton will be the guest speaker. His topic will be “Who and What Are We Commemorating When We Celebrate Scottish Highland Heritage.” Refreshments and tours of the house available. Mill Prong House, 3062 Edinburg Road, Red Springs, Info: (910) 315-5385 or (910) 466-9008 or www.millpronghouse.com.

BUILD COMMUNITY @ YOUR LIBRARY. 3–4 p.m.

Join Gayla Comer, a registered dietician and certified aroma therapist, for Essential Oils 101, an exploration of the most popular essential oils, how and when to use them and which oils can be used safely to enhance your health and wellness.

Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT. 3 p.m. The Larkin Duo with Bonnie Thron, featuring Fred Jacobowitz, clarinet;

foster a love of books and reading, with tips for winding down after dinner and getting the week off on the right track. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Anatoly Larkin, piano; and Bonnie Thron, cello. Stay for the reception and meet the musicians. Tickets: $10/members; $20/non-members; students under 18 free. Tickets available at the door. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines.

Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Citizen Science.”

Learn what Citizen Science means and how you can become a Citizen Scientist yourself. Be prepared to hit the trails to gather some raw data and get to science-ing right away.

Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, April 9

COOKING CLASS. 9–11 a.m. “Basic Knife Skills.” This course teaches you how to choose, use and care for knives in the course of making Chicken en Papillote, a delicious meal cooked in parchment paper. Instructor: Chef Angela Webb. $75. Lifelong Learning Institute, Sandhills Community College, Russell Dining Room, Little Hall, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For info and to register: (910) 695-3980 or (800) 338-3944, ext. 3980.

COOKING CLASS. 9–12 p.m. “Easy Desserts.” Learn to make professional looking desserts like Apple Galette and Key Lime pie in quick, easy steps; and leave with some wonderful, easy dessert recipes. Instructor: Chef Monica Midgette. $75. Lifelong Learning Institute, Sandhills Community College, Culinary Hot Bakeshop. Little Hall, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For info and to register: (910) 695-3980 or (800) 338-3944, ext. 3980.

EVENING STORYTIMES. 5:30 p.m. Children ages 3 through third grade and their whole families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that

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SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7 p.m.

Competition: Open, Judge is Joel Collins. Theater in the Hannah Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org.

Tuesday, April 10

ACTION AT THE OUTPOST. 6–8 p.m. “Pressing Flowers for Cards and Art.” Nancy Heilman walks you through the process of making art with pressed flowers. Have some?

Bring them. If not, flowers and other supplies are available.

Refreshments, too. Cost is $15 and proceeds benefit Given Memorial Library. Limited space, reserve at Given Memorial Library or by phone. The Given Outpost and Bookshop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 295-7002.

Tuesdays, April 10 — May 1

ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 10–11 a.m. Tuesdays through May 1 (four sessions). Ages 16+. Pre-registration is required.

Please bring your own tennis racket. If you do not have one, please contact the department to check one out. Cost: $35/ resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, Tennis Court number 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www. pinehurstrec.org.

YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. Ages 5-8 at 4 p.m.; ages 9–11 at 5 p.m.; and ages 12–16 at 6 p.m. Tuesdays through May 1 (4 sessions). Pre-registration is required. Please bring your own tennis racket. If you do not have one, please contact the department to check one out. Cost: $5/resident; $10/

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Dues must be paid in advance to participate. Dues payment covers all five sessions. Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

HOME-SCHOOL TENNIS LESSONS. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. Tuesdays through May 1 (4 sessions). This is a new program for home-schooled children (ages 12–16) or those who can attend lessons earlier in the day. Pre-registration is required. Please bring your own tennis racket or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $35/resident; $70/ non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, Tennis Court number 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

KAKALAK POETRY READING. 5:30 p.m. Poets read from the annual publication dedicated to North and South Carolina poetry. This event is free and open to the public— a light reception will follow. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines.

Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Thursday, April 12

Tuesday, April 10 and 11

SENIOR ADULT TRIP. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Streets at Southpoint, Durham. For ages 50+, this will be a fun-filled day of shopping and dining at the Streets of Southpoint.

Cost: $16/resident; $32/non-resident. Meet at Assembly Hall, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Tuesdays, April 10 — May 15

ART CLASS. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. “Intermediate Scratchboard/ Color,” taught by Emma Wilson. Cost: $35. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

ART CLASS. 1–3 p.m. “Fractured Planes—Abstract,” taught by Kathy Leuck. Cost: $71. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or www.artistleague.org.

BASIC HATHA EVENING YOGA. 5:30–6:30 p.m.

(Tuesdays through May 15) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for adults age 18 and older who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $40/resident; $80/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Wednesday, April 11

REC-ING CREW SOCIAL CLUB. 4–5:30 p.m. April Activity: Pottery. This is an inclusive program to give young adults (ages 18+) a chance to unwind and socialize with their friends. The group will meet each month but July for a different group activity. Light refreshments will be served. Club dues: $20/residents; $40/non-residents.

LUNCH N’ LEARN. 10:30 a.m. Vicki Stone from the Village Design Team will give you ideas for your home and answer your questions about interior design. Tickets: $25, which includes the program, lunch and dessert.

Reservations required. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 295-4677.

GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 p.m. “Weather Sayings and Folklore.” Dolores Muller, in partnership with Pinehurst Living Magazine, will describe and explain weather sayings and folklore, as highlighted in the April/ May issue. Note: This program is only available in the

afternoon. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022.

COOKING CLASS. 5–7 p.m. “Basic Knife Skills.” This course teaches you how to choose, use and care for knives in the course of making Chicken en Papillote, a delicious meal cooked in parchment paper. Instructor: Chef Angela Webb. $75. Lifelong Learning Institute, Sandhills Community College, Russell Dining Room, Little Hall, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For info and to register: (910) 695-3980 or (800) 338-3944, ext. 3980.

YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. Ages 5-8 at 4 p.m.; ages 9–11 at 5 p.m.; and ages 12–16 at 6 p.m. Thursdays through May 3 (4 sessions). Pre-registration is required. Please bring your own tennis racket. If you do not have one, please contact the department to check one out. Cost: $5/resident; $10/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, Tennis Court number 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www. pinehurstrec.org.

MEET THE AUTHOR. 5:30 p.m. Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun, will be here to discuss her new book, Women in Sunlight, the story of four American women who meet and bond in Italy over the course of a year. The presentation will be followed by a Q and A and book signing. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

SPRING BARN DANCE. 6–10 p.m. The evening includes a buffet dinner by Filly and Colts, rockin’ music from local DJ King Curtiss and libations from Southern Pines Brewery. Cost: $50/person. Benefits go to Prancing Horse Therapeutic Horseback Riding Center, a nonprofit therapeutic riding center that works to improve the lives of individuals with special needs. Tickets available at A Bit Used Tack

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Thursday, April 12 — 15

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Southern Pines CDE. Divisions: CDE-Training/CDE-Preliminary/CDEIntermediate/CDE-Advanced/CDE-FEI1*/CDE-FEI2.

USEF Single Horse Championships. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

JUDSON THEATRE. Evening and matinee performances.

William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker. This production of the true story of Helen Keller, blind and deaf since birth, and her dedicated teacher, Annie Sullivan, stars John James (of TV’s Dynasty). Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-6989 or www.judsontheatre.com.

Thursday, April 12 — 29

CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE. 7:30 p.m.

(Wednesday–Saturday) and 2 p.m. weekend matinees. No shows on Monday and Tuesday. Sense and Sensibility, a spirited adaptation based on Jane Austen’s classic novel. Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: (910) 323-4233 or www.cfrt.org.

Friday, April 13

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Wonderful Wings (For Wee Ones)” Learn about the amazing variety of critters that have wings through reading a book, playing some games and making a craft. This program is designed for 3- to 5-year-olds, and meant for parents to do with their children. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

LIVE AFTER 5 CONCERT SERIES. 5:30–9 p.m. This free event for the entire family includes live music by Night Years, dancing and activities for the kids. Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and dancing shoes. Food trucks on-site and drinks available for purchase. Picnic baskets are allowed, but outside alcoholic beverages are not permitted. Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W., Downtown Pinehurst. Info: 2958656 or www.vopnc.org.

SECOND SATURDAY IN THE PINES. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Come celebrate The Month of The Military Child with The Heritage Flag’s Smoking Chunk Cookout. Sample delicious eats from Beefeaters and The Heritage Flag. Presented

by The Heritage Flag Company, this event benefits the Duskin & Stephens Foundation. 230 S. Bennett St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1540 or Facebook @ Second Saturday In The Pines.

Saturday, April 14

THE MET OPERA: LIVE IN HD. 1–4:31 p.m. Verdi’s Luisa Miller. This is a co-production with the English National Opera. Cost: $27. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or www. sunrisetheater.com.

WEYMOUTH DIRT GARDENERS PLANT SALE. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Shop for perennials, trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines and herbs. Plus White Elephant Sale: containers, baskets, tools and more. Proceeds go to the Weymouth Center Gardens. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET OPENING DAY. 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. The market features fresh, local goods from many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers.

1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.moorefarmfresh.com.

SOUTHERN PINES GARDEN CLUB HOME AND GARDEN TOUR. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. The 70th anniversarry annual tour features art exhibits, orchid and other plants sale, restaurant discounts, and a tour of six homes and gardens, plus Pinehurst Resort Greenhouse tours. Tickets: $20/ advance; $25/day of (available at The Country Bookshop, The Women’s Exchange or online). Tour begins at The Campbell House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines.

Info and tickets: (910) 295-4617 or www.southernpinesgardenclub.com.

2018 HABITAT GALA AND SILENT AUCTION. 6 p.m.

The main annual fundraising event of the Sandhills Habitat for Humanity includes dinner, live and silent auctions, music and more. Tickets: $150. Proceeds are used to build an entire home. Pinehurst Country Club, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1934.

USA DANCE. 6:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Free dance lesson at 7.

The Carolina Pines Chapter of USA Dance invites you to its Spring Semi-Formal Dance at the Elks Lodge, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Admission: $10. Info: (910) 331-9965.

Sunday, April 15

SANDHILLS CROP HUNGER WALK. 1 p.m.

Registration. The walk begins at 2 p.m. Church World Services is transforming communities through sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster. It is funded by Crop Hunger Walks in communities all over the world. One-mile and three-mile walks begin in Ashe St. parking lot of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church, 330 S. May St., Southern Pines. Food collection boxes from

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SIP AND PAINT WITH JANE. 5–7 p.m. Join local artist Jane Casnellie for a fun painting class suitable for all levels, including beginners. No experience necessary and all materials included as well as your wine. Take home your own masterpiece. Cost: $35. Call Jane at (910) 639-4823 to sign up. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, at 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. www.janecasnellie.com.

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WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE SERIES. 5:30 p.m. Award winning poet John Amen will read from his work. Reception to meet the author sponsored by St. Joseph of the Pines.

Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

GARDEN AND NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY. 6 p.m.

Garden photographer Thomas Keever shares tips and advice on how to capture beautiful nature pictures with your camera. Bring a battery-reliant camera with full batteries and a tripod if you have one. Be prepared for the outdoors: bug repellent, sunscreen, and sturdy walking shoes. This is a photography workshop, not a camera workshop; attendees should already have a working knowledge of the functions of their cameras. Fee: $10/garden member; $15/ non-member. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org.

Wednesday, April 18 and 19

SANDHILLS FARM TO TABLE. First days of produce deliveries for 2018. You can sign up anytime in the season. Info and sign-ups: (910) 722-1623 or sandhillsfarm2table.com.

Thursday, April 19

MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children, especially ages 2–5, and their families. This event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motorskill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or

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ART CLASS. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. “Plein Air Painting,” taught

by Harry Neely. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artistleague.org.

DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. This month’s book can be picked up at the Southern Pines Public Library or at the Center. Meetings are held at the Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or (910) 692-8235.

COOKING CLASS. 5–8 p.m. “Time For Tai.” Known as street food in Thailand, this stir-fry is full of flavor.

Rice noodles, nam pla and tamarind are the ingredients bringing richness and complexity to this easy-to-make dish.

Instructor: Chef Angela Webb. $75. Lifelong Learning Institute, Sandhills Community College, Russell Dining Room, Little Hall, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For info and to register: (910) 695-3980 or (800) 338-3944, ext. 3980.

RUFUS BARRINGER CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6 p.m. Refreshments and social activities; 7 p.m. meeting.

Greg Mertz, Supervisory Historian for the National Park Service, will speak on “J.E.B. Stuart at Chancellorsville.”

The meeting is open to the public. The purpose of the organization is to promote, educate, and stimulate interest in the Civil War period. S.P. Civic Club, corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and Ashe St., Southern Pines. Info: Matt Farina at (910) 246-0452 or mafarina@aol.com.

OPEN MIC AT THE SPOT. 6 p.m. Doors open, music at 6:46 p.m. Carolina Theater CEO Rebecca Newton will emcee, with plenty of song power from a pair of Kerrville winners. No admission charged to members. Annual membership $5. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen.

Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

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Thursday, April 19—May 13

TEMPLE THEATRE. 7:30 and 2 p.m. performances.

Carolina’s Center for the Performing Arts presents live the classic story of Beauty and the Beast. 120 Carthage St., Sanford.

Info and tickets: (919) 774-4155 or www.templeshows.com.

Friday, April 20

COOKING CLASS. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. “Time For Tai.” Known as street food in Thailand, this stir-fry is full of flavor. Rice noodles, nam pla and tamarind are the ingredients bringing richness and complexity to this easy to make dish. Instructor: Chef Angela Webb. $75. Lifelong Learning Institute, Sandhills Community College, Russell Dining Room, Little Hall, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For info and to register: (910) 695-3980 or (800) 338-3944, ext. 3980.

Fridays, April 20—May 25

CHAIR YOGA. 9–10 a.m. Fridays through May 25. Taught

by Darlind Davis, ideal for those with chronic conditions, balance issues or lower body challenges that affect your ability to get up and down. Cost: $40/resident; $80/non-resident. Info: Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

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From 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., join the library staff for a special Earth Day event. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

BLUES & BREWS: A FESTIVAL AT THE FARM. 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Enjoy a day of Bluegrass performances

by Tommy Edwards Bluegrass Experience, Unspoken Tradition, Time Sawyer, and Songs From The Road Band. Beer, cider and food will be available for purchase.

Admission: $5. Malcolm Blue Farm, 1177 Bethesda Road, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275.

PINEHURST GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Proceeds will provide a scholarship for a Sandhills Community College horticulture student and will contribute to area beautification projects. Pinehurst Fire Department 91, 405 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info and orders: Carolyn Thompson at (845) 594-7581 or www. pinehurstgardenclub.com.

PARTY FOR THE PINE. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. The festival to celebrate the oldest known living longleaf pine in the world will be held at the Weymouth Woods Boyd Tract. Food trucks on site. Enjoy music, activities, turpentine demonstrations and face painting; and watch (if the weather cooperates) a live, prescribed burn demonstration. Meet and park at 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

BUILD YOUR OWN BIRDHOUSE. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. As part of the Weymouth Woods Party for the Pine, Our Birds of the Sandhills program, cosponsored with Lowe’s Home Improvement will help you build your own birdhouse.

Bring a hammer or battering screwdriver. Admission is free.

Birdhouses are free while supplies last. Weymouth Woods

Boyd Tract, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463.

13TH ANNUAL CLENNY CREEK DAY. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

The Friends of the Bryant House (ca. 1821) volunteers are offering events for kids and whole families to enjoy, including drawings; live music; vendors; historical re-enactments; food; tours; and items for sale such as blueberry bushes, azaleas, vegetable bedding plants and herbs. Free admission and parking off Richardson Road. Bryant House and McLendon Cabin at 3361 Mt. Carmel Road, Carthage area. Info: Kaye Davis Brown at (910) 947-7014 or www.moorehistory.com.

7TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF THE MILITARY CHILD. 12–3 p.m. Cosponsored by the Kiwanis Club of the Sandhills, the afternoon will include a free cookout, entertainment, pony rides, a video game trailer, a bounce house, lawn games and a strolling magician. This event is free and is open to everyone. The Village Arboretum, 375 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-2817.

BROADWAY CABARET. 3 and 7:30 p.m. Two Broadway stars take you on a journey through some of your favorite melodies, interlaced with riveting back-stories. David Michael Wolff hosts from the keyboard. The Carolina Philharmonic’s Broadway Cabaret series is intimate, yet epic — and immensely popular. Tickets range from $30–$60 (discounts for students and active military).

Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: Info: (910) 687-0287 or www.carolinaphil.org.

Alex Jokippi, Principal Trumpet of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Pre-concert talk with the FSO Music Nerd at 6:45.

Tickets: $28/adults, $25/seniors and military; $11/students or children ages 6-18. Seabrook Auditorium, Fayetteville State University, 1200 Murchison Road, Fayetteville. (910) 4334690 or www.fayettevillesymphony.org.

Saturday, April 21 and 22

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Longleaf Pines Horse Trials. Divisions: USEF/USEA Recognized: P, USEF Endorsed/USEA Recognized: T,N,BN; USEA Recognized Test: CT-A,CT-I,CT-P,CT-T,CT-N,CT-BN. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or www. carolinahorsepark.com.

Saturday, April 21—29

25TH ANNUAL KOVACK POTTERY SPRING EVENT. 8–10 a.m. daily. A nine-day celebration of pottery featuring huge selections of hand-turned, hand-painted, limited edition pieces. At this event only, every unique piece of pottery will be accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by both the potter and the artist. Free admission. Kovack’s Pottery, 1298 Fork Creek Mill Road, Seagrove. Info: (336) 873-8727.

Sunday, April 22

THE FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 7:30–10 p.m. “Appalachian Spring” Concert. The last concert of our Carolina season presents Copland’s Appalchian Spring and Sibelius’s Finlandia and features a solo performance by

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE IN HD FROM LONDON. 1 p.m. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, starring Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connor. Sponsored by Knickers. Tickets: $20; $18/ students (with ID). Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or www. sunrisetheater.com.

SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. Enjoy a free showing of the movie of the newest Pixar film, in which a boy is accidentally transported to the land of the dead. Southern Pines

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NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Hike NC.” Blue Cross Blue Shield is partnering with N.C. Parks to promote healthy, outdoor activity. Join a park ranger for this 2.5-mile hike through Weymouth Woods. Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, April 23

EVENING STORYTIMES. 5:30 p.m. Children ages 3 through third grade and their whole families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading, with tips for winding down after dinner and getting the week off on the right track. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Warren Lewis (Chef Warren) will present his photography and descriptions of an Arctic Ocean voyage on a trawler in the Svalbard Archipelago. See photos of landscapes, polar bears, pelagic birds and other wildlife of the Far North. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.sandhillsnature.org.

Tuesday, April 24

MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 7 p.m. Bring your instrument and your beverage, or just come to enjoy. Free and open to the public. Library, Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Tuesday, April 24 and 25

ART CLASS (WATERCOLOR). 10 a.m.–12 p.m.

“Watercolor on Rice Paper,” taught by Pat McMahon. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Tuesday, April 24 and 29

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN. 7 p.m. (April 24), 1:30 p.m.

(April 29). Canaletto and the Art of Venice. Based on the exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, this exhibit features over 200 paintings, drawings and prints

by Giovanni Antonio Canal and his contemporaries, presenting the essence and allure of Venice. Tickets: $12/ members; $14/non-members; $10 students and teachers.

Cameo Arthouse Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-6633 or www.cameoarthouse.com.

Tuesdays, April 24 through May 29

GENTLE FLOW YOGA. 10:30–11:30 a.m. (Tuesdays through May 29) Instructor Carol Wallace leads this class for individuals who have some familiarity with basic yoga poses.

This class focuses on alignment, balance, posture and body awareness. Cost: $40/resident; $80/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Wednesday, April 25

DURHAM BULLS BASEBALL GAME. 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m.

For ages 50+. Enjoy a day at the ballpark as the Durham Bulls take on Buffalo. We will enjoy lunch at the ballpark.

Cost: $28/resident; $56/non-resident. Meet at Assembly Hall, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME (BILINGUAL). 3:30–4 p.m. The library will celebrate Dia de los Ninos during this special bilingual story time. (especially for children ages birth to 5 years and their caregivers) Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave.,

Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

WINE AND WHIMSEY ART CLASS. 6–8 p.m.

“Bluebirds.” A perfect date night or girls’ night out. All supplies and instruction provided. Wine, beer and snacks available for purchase. Ages 16+. Cost: $20/member; $25/ non-member. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221. Register online at form.jotform.com/51666115773964.

SIP AND SAMPLE. 6–8:30 p.m. The 18th Annual Food & Wine Event to benefit Sandhills Children’s Center will feature live music and dazzling wines, craft beers and delectable appetizers from the best Sandhills chefs. Tickets: $45/ person before April 16; $60/person after April 16. Presented

by Mutual Distributing. Sponsorships available. The Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road, Pinehurst. Info and tickets: (910) 692-3323 or www.SandhillsChildrensCenter.org.

Thursday, April 26 and 27

ART CLASS (OILS). 10 a.m.–3 p.m. “Intermediate Oil Painting,” taught by Charlie Roberts. Cost: $90. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Thursday, April 26 and May 3, 10 and 17

ART EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS: “Exploring Drawing With Color” 9–11 a.m. for children ages 9–12, and 1:30–3:30 p.m. for ages 12–16. This course, taught

by Ellen Burke on four Thursdays, is designed for homeschooled students. It includes eight hours of instruction in drawing, color mediums, art appreciation, portfolio building, and an opportunity for students to draw in class and exhibit their work. Cost, including materials: $115/child; $105/each child for siblings, due at registration. Hollyhocks Gallery 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Ellen Burke (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@gmail.com.

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GENTLE FLOW YOGA. 10–11 a.m. (Thursdays through May 31) Instructor Carol Wallace leads this class for individuals who have some familiarity with basic yoga poses.

This class focuses on alignment, balance, posture and body awareness. Cost: $40/resident; $80/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Friday, April 27

DAY TRIPPERS. 11:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Temple Theater.

This program is for teens and young adults (ages 14+) to get out and explore various things that N.C. has to offer.

This month, step into the enchanted world of Broadway’s modern classic, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. The group will depart from and return to Village Hall, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Saturday, April 28 and 29

FESTIVAL D’AVION. 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday. This celebration of flight and freedom includes aircraft displays and exhibits, special events and activities, music, food, beverages and more. Tickets: $30, includes entry for both days. BOGO sale through April 7.

Available at The Country Bookshop, Old Sport Gallery, Villager Deli, Harris Teeters and online. BBQ Cook-off: $15.

Sponsored by Pinehurst Resort and Country Club. Moore County Airport, 7425 Aviation Blvd., Carthage. Info: (910) 215-0861 or www.festivaldavion.com.

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Prime Time Dressage Show. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or www.sportingservices.net.

Saturday, April 28

WOMEN OF THE PINES ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Clothing and accessories, books, household

items, curtains, linens, rugs, jewelry and collectibles, sports, exercise, luggage, small furniture items (indoor/outdoor), small appliances, toys and games. Donations accepted until April 26. Old West End Gymnasium, 134 Old West End School Lane, West End. Info: Jan Minoff (847) 274-1728 or Helen Kirk (910) 400-5211.

TRAIL. 3 p.m. All 5–10th graders are invited to join the library each month for TRAIL (Teens Reading and Investigating Life). Get creative for Spa Day as you learn how to make your own lip-gloss, body scrub and more. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY. All day. The Country Bookshop will have specials all day to celebrate.

The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Sunday, April 29

SOUTHERN PINES SPRINGFEST. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Arts, crafts, games, rides, food, entertainment, and more. Vendors from all around N.C. and the country. Activities for kids include the annual Youth Bike Races for children 10 and under. This event is cosponsored by the Town of Southern Pines. Both sides of Broad St., downtown Southern Pines.

Info: (910) 315-6508.

SPRINGFEST AT SHAW HOUSE. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Tours of the historic Shaw House (1820) and the 18th Century Garner House and Sanders Cabin. Representatives from the Museum of History aided by the Rufus Barringer Civil War Roundtable members will scan your old documents and original records dating back to the Civil War and regarding Moore County for entry into the historic and electronic archives. Tours and activities at the Shaw House are free for that day. Shaw House, corner of Morganton Road and Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2051 weekday afternoons or www.moorehistory.com.

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Wildlings: Animal Engineers.” Join the “Wildings” program series (for 6- to 10-year-olds) this Saturday on a hike to discover the different types of structures built by wildlife throughout the park. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3–4 p.m. “Hoppers, Climbers, Swimmers.” At this time of the year, nights are filled with the sounds of frogs and toads. This indoor presentation focuses on some of the species that inhabit this region.

Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, April 30

WINE AND ART APPRECIATION. 5:30–7:30 p.m.

“Taking the Scenic Route: Exploring and Interpreting Nature Through Landscape Painting,” with art educator and local artist Ellen Burke. Cost: $20, including wine. Proceeds to benefit Military Missions in Action, Southern Pines. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Ellen (603) 966-6567 or Jane Casnellie (910) 639-4823.

THE SCIENCE OF COCKTAILS. 6–8 p.m. Local expert Tony Cross introduces you to oils and juices that make amazing drinks. Limited seating, tickets on sale April 2 at Given Memorial Library. Cost: $25 and proceeds benefit Given Memorial Library. The Given Outpost and Bookshop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 2957002 or (910) 295-6022.

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ART CLASS. 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. “The Way I Paint,” taught

by Bob Way. Cost: $220. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artistleague.org.

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UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday, May 1 and 8

ART CLASS. 1–4 p.m. Let’s Get Positive about Negative Painting,” taught by Sandy Scott. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays

BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 2–5:30 p.m.

Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods, and more. FirstHealth Fitness Center, 170 Memorial Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 947-3752 or localharvest.org.

Tuesdays

BABY BUNNIES STORY TIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions) This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy brain-building practices. Programs will be offered April 3, 10, 17 and 24. Limited to 20 babies per session. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games and the Wii. The Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost per

class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221.

Tuesdays — Saturdays

SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE. 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Lunch served 11 a.m.–2 p.m. The gift shop features over 60 N.C. and American handmade artisan gifts. If interested in volunteering, call the Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst, at (910) 295-4677, www.sandhillswe.org or on our Facebook page.

Wednesdays

TAX HELP. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Trained AARP volunteers offer this free service at the library on Wednesdays and Saturdays through April 14. Clients must register onsite, and there are no prior appointments by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 3–6 p.m. As of April 14, the market features fresh, local goods from many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers. 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.localharvest.org.

YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike. Free for CFBG and YMCA members, $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221, ext. 36 or capefearbg.org.

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READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30–4 p.m. Especially for children ages 2–5, this story time focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build language and socialization skills to prepare for Kindergarten. Dates this month are April 4, 11, 18 and 25. Stay for playtime. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Thursdays

MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.localharvest.org.

GIVEN STORY TIME. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5.

Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022.

MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation.

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CHESS. 1–3 p.m. Don Hammerman instructs all levels of players. You need a chess set to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

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ZOOPENDOUS SHOW CHORUS. 7 p.m. Are you a woman who likes to sing? Zoopendous Show Chorus is a 501(c)3 non-profit women’s chorus singing a capella barbershop harmony. It’s not your grandpa’s barbershop. Come check us out at a rehearsal in the Dudley Center directly behind West End Presbyterian Church, 275 Knox Lane, West End. Info: (910) 725-9376 or Zoopendous Show Chorus on Facebook.

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LIVE MUSIC. 7–10 p.m. Mama Molasses performs on April 6, Frankie Moree on April 13, Cousin Amy Deluxe String Band on April 20, and Steve Grott and Johnathon Robinson on April 27. The Wine Cellar, 241-A N.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Free to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066.

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays

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Fridays

SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. As of April 14. The market features fresh, local goods from many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers. 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www. localharvest.

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BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

TAX HELP. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Trained AARP volunteers offer this free service at the library on Wednesdays and Saturdays through April 14. Clients must register on site, and there are no prior appointments by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music, provided by The Sand Band (April 6), Gary Lowder & Smokin’ Hot (April 13), The Sand Band (April 20), and TBA (April 27). Cost: $15/person. Ages 21 and older. Reservations and

LIVE MUSIC. 7–10 p.m. James Villone performs on April 7, Tyler Godfrey on April 14, Heather Kenney on April 21, and Whiskey Pines on April 28 at the Wine Cellar, 241 N.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Free to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066.

HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. (1 hour and 15 minutes each). Also by request.

Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person.

Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com.

PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. Reading selections are taken from the shop’s inventory of children’s literature, from the classics to modern day. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 8 a.m.–12 p.m.

Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods, and more. Downtown Park, 145 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.localharvest.org.

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Open & Newly Remodeled Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Sunday Brunch

Mother’s Day Brunch Make your reservations today!

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910-944-0826 Serving Lunch & Dinner Beer & Wine List Available

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CHARMING OLD WORLD ATMOSPHERE IN THE HEART OF PINEHURST

SHOP AT THEOS’ MARKET Produced on Theo’s Estate Extra Virgin/First Cold Press Olive Oil • Kalamata Olives • Mountain Oregano Homemade Mountain Honey • Olive Oil Soap

Golf Digest’s “One of the Top 3 Things You Must Do In Pinehurst”

Enjoy lunch or dinner in the lovely garden courtyard, on our balcony overlooking our main dining room or before charming fireplaces.

Southern Living / Sports Illustrated: “Theos a Must Visit when in Pinehurst”

OUR EXTENSIVE MENU COOKED IN THEOS HOMEGROWN OLIVE OIL...

Fresh Seafood Including Sea Bass, Halibut, Grouper & Salmon, Lamb, Veal, Osso Bucco, Moussaka, Salads, Pastas, Pizzettes, Calzones, Paella, Duck, Kobe Filet, Bouillabaise & More!

Open 7 Days a Week Serving Lunch and Dinner • theostaverna@gmail.com

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IT’S TIME TO EAT OUT

Restaurant Authentic Thai Cusine

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Lunch

Tuesday - Friday 11:30am - 2:30pm Sunday 11:30am - 2:30pm

Karaoke every Fri. & Sat. 8pm-Midnight 1005 Monroe St. Ste. K, Carthage, NC (910) 947-2447 • tosg@mail.com www.TOsportsgrill.com

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Dugans Pub Live Music Tues-Sat

All ABC Permits • Full Menu Open Daily 11:30 am 2 Market Square, Pinehurst, NC • 910-295-3400

Dinner

Monday - Sunday 5:00pm - 9:30pm See our menu on MooCo under Oriental Restaurants

(910) 944-9299 Carryout and Vegetarian Dishes

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Dining Guide Lunch Brunch Baked Goods Catering Events

Opening in April

MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET

Tomatoes, Strawberries, Fruits, Veggies, Jams, Meats, Flowers & Plants

The Sandhills Exclusive Source for

MONDAYS FirstHealth (Fitness Center) opens April 16th 2pm to 5:30 pm 170 Memorial Dr. Pinehurst (Facility courtesy of FirstHealth) Will be open through October 29 THURSDAYS 604 W. Morganton Rd. (Armory Sports Complex) Southern Pines 9am – 1pm Year Round Facility Courtesy of Town of Southern Pines SATURDAYS SE Broad & NY Ave Southern Pines NC 8am to Noon starts April 21st Facility courtesy of Town of Southern Pines Will be open through October 27th

Call 947-3752 or 690-9520 for more info. hwwebster@embarqmail.com

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Where Food Meets Spirit.

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Chef Driven American Fare

11am - 10pm Mon • Tue • Wed • Thu • Fri • Sat • and YES SUN & MON TOO!

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Arts & Culture

High Fire Orb with Bamboo Lid by Linda Dalton Pottery

PALUSTRIS: Celebrating Longleaf Through the Arts Featuring work by Brady Beck, Linda Dalton, Sharon Ferguson, Janette Hooper, Diana Russ, Caroline Young, & Nanette Zeller April 6-27, 2018, Campbell House Galleries

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LECTURE

“Cezanne in Provence” by Molly Gwinn 5:30pm, Weymouth Center

APR 12-15 The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson JUDSON THEATRE

Starring John James (Dynasty & The Colby’s) Owens Auditorium at SCC

APR 21 After-Party for Party for the Pine

FESTIVAL

4-8pm, Campbell House Galleries

Become an Arts Council member today.

It’s an easy way to help our community flourish.

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Captured live from London’s West End.

Presents

JACK O’CONNELL

COLM MEANEY

Photography by Charlie Gray

SIENNA MILLER

April 22 at 1pm

Three Legendary Beach Music Bands, One Day! Also performing: Workin’ on Commission Bad Moon Rising

Saturday, May 12, 2018 Get Your Tickets Online

‘This thrilling revival... burns bright enough to scorch’ New York Times

‘Miller and O’Connell get to a raw and naked truth’ Metro

$20 Tickets

$18 with student ID

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www.SanfordArtsAndVine.com Gates Open 1 pm Mann Center of NC 507 N. Steele Street Sanford, NC

Music • Artist Booths • Wine • Craft Brew • Food Thanks so much to our generous 2018 Sponsors!

Proceeds will benefit the Mann Center of North Carolina.

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Arts & Culture 128 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Southern Pines, NC 28374 (910) 725-0465 www.oneofakindgalleryllc.com

For those who appreciate fine art

April’s Spotlight on BRADY BECK, Photographer

LEE AUDITORIUM, PINECREST HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTHERN PINES

A NIGHT AT

THE OSCARS® TUES, MAY 29 | 8PM

Wesley Schulz, conductor

The Symphony rolls out the red carpet for an evening of hits from Hollywood’s greatest Oscar®-winning film composers—featuring music from Chicago, West Side Story, How to Train Your Dragon, the James Bond series, E.T., and much more!

Tickets start at just $18!*

Tickets also available at:

Campbell House | 482 E. Connecticut Avenue The Country Bookshop | 140 NW Broad Street Tufts Archives | 150 Cherokee Road

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Arts & Culture

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN HD FILM SHOWING, THURS. MAY 17 10AM WITH INTRODUCTION BY ELLEN BURKE. $10

SPECIAL COMBINED TICKET, BOTH FILMS FOR $15

Arts & Crafts Fair Downtown Southern Pines

SCREENING OF THE NEW RELEASE FILM LOVING VINCENT

Saturday, April 28 10am // 4pm Kids Block

THURS. MAY 24 • 10AM - $8

Games // Rides // Fun 250 NW BROAD STREET • SOUTHERN PINES SUNRISETHEATER.COM • 910-692-8501 FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: SUNRISE.THEATER

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PROUDLY SPONSORED BY:

SUNRISE PRESERVATION GROUP INC IS A 501 C3 TAX-DEDUCTIBLE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

Owens Auditorium JudsonTheatre.com

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ARTISTS LEAGUE of the SANDHILLS

E XC H A NG E S T REET G A L L ERY March 2 / March 29

April 6 - April 26

OPENING RECEPTION

OPENING RECEPTION

“March is for the Arts”

by William Gibson “Dynasty” star

John James

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Sunday Matinee benefits

Professional Theatre Company in Residence at

Arthur Keller

Season Seven Sponsors

Friday, March 2 / 4 - 6 pm.

“Mix it up - Anything Goes” Friday, April 7 / 4 - 6 pm.

• Finger Paint Blue Hydrangeas (Acrylic )- March 15 • Oil Painting with Courtney - March 22, 23 • Let’s Get Positive about Negative Painting - March 13, 20 • Open Studio - Life Drawing - March 9 • Black and White Charcoal Series/4 - March 12, 19, April 9, 16 • Planning/Problem Solving! How do I do this? (Colored Pencil) - March 21 • Intermediate/Advanced Ink (combined) - March 3 • Beginning Scratchboard - March 14 • Beginning Encaustic Wax - March 16

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By Astrid Stellanova

Star Children, don’t expect a description of the first sign in the

horoscope. Aries folks kick over the traces, when anyone dares apply adjectives to them. Lady Gaga. Leonardo da Vinci. Maya Angelou. All Aries, and all tending to have the kind of force field that others notice. Aries don’t take kindly to boredom, following the pack or tradition. They do take kindly to impulse, hacking a trail straight into the thicket and breaking norms right over your head if they have to, all in the name of the Aries fierce individuality. Diamonds, daisies and sweet peas are hallmarks of Aries, which sounds nice, right? Well, diamonds are the hardest substance on Earth — from the Greek word for “unbreakable” — just right for this fire sign. Ad Astra — Astrid

Aries (March 21–April 19) Nobody would believe it, Ram. But your birthday most always knocks you sideways.

What’s in a little ole number, Sugar? You can’t accept your age because you: Don’t feel it, look it and sure don’t act it. However, here you are — and that birth certificate don’t lie. As an actual fact, embracing that scary new number is the first step towards discovering that it may be your luckiest one. Honey, do remember that you are the lucky one until your number is, well, up? (And when did you ever care what somebody else thought, anyhoo?)

Taurus (April 20–May 20) You, being an unusually mellow and chill Taurus this month, have everybody thrown for a little ole loop. Your newfound self-restraint is about as unexpected as a fainting goat at the petting zoo. Call it age. Call it wisdom. Call it about time. Your friends and family are cheering you on and loving it.

Gemini (May 21–June 20) The heart wants what it wants. And then, well, snap, it doesn’t. You set out to get what you thought you wanted, made sure you got it, then threw it out the window of a moving car. Now you are going back and forth down that lonesome road hoping to find it and retrieve it. Sugar, it is too late for that, but you’re not too old to learn from it.

Cancer (June 21–July 22) You remind me of that tea towel that reads: “Loose women tightened up here.” You’ve found a whole new sense of humor, new ways to enjoy yourself and break free, and the road to more discovery is straight ahead. Don’t listen to your critics. If they insist you get tight, do it with a cocktail.

Leo (July 23–August 22) Some people are like poison ivy, flourishing on shade. That’s the problem with one of your closest confidants. Resist the urge to overshare. As irresistible as the gossip is, it is also toxic and some of that poison will spill onto you if you don’t watch it.

Virgo (August 23–September 22) Trying to be all things to all people is like trying to teach sex education and driver’s education in the same car! That’s a lot like what you’ve been doing lately — straddling two very different goals and managing neither one. What is your true intention? What do you really want, Honey?

Libra (September 23–October 22) A recent family fracas left you smarting from a little rope-a-dope. Shake it off, Sugar.

Then get yourself a new attitude and close your lips. There is nothing you can say that will make things resolve, and it is not your destiny to leave every family feud with rope burns. It will play out and you can make an exit.

Scorpio (October 23–November 21) You’re a secret intellectual. You like crossword puzzles and mind games. So, what are you doing joining a book club that only reads beer labels? Why are you hiding yourself when you are smarter than you want to admit? Fess up and step up.

Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) You didn’t just shoot yourself in the foot. You speared yourself. Lucky for you, this is not a fatal wound. In the future, you will laugh about the way you bumbled your way into a storm of epic proportions, but Honey, right now what you need most is a bandage.

Capricorn (December 22–January 19) If the good guys really did wear white hats and sit tall in the saddle, life would be easier on all of us. But life ain’t a Western. And, frankly, you have a little secret of your own. If you could unburden yourself and make amends, you might stop picking fights with the bad guys.

Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Three times. That’s how often an opportunity is going to knock. After that, it may be a dry spell. Opening the door won’t be all that scary, Honey Bun. But letting a good opportunity walk away might be a thing to regret.

Pisces (February 19–March 20) In the shoulda-coulda-woulda competition, you took first prize. Now try walking the path moving forward, instead of walking it backward. If we got it right the first time, we would all graduate from the big school of life. But nobody does. Second-guessing is not a goal to pursue. PS

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

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Greenus Envious

By Susan S. Kelly

So it’s finally

a warm weekend in spring, and you long to have something to pick, prune, pluck or even deadhead in your yard, garden, or the scorched-earth, weed-whacked plot that passes for it. But you’re too busy or lazy to learn Latin names, and it’s embarrassing to go to the garden center and say, “I want those, you know, pink flowers that are tall,” or “ . . . that tree that looks pretty in the spring.”

Herewith, therefore, your tried-and-true primer, from someone whose personal dirt’s worth is incalculable due to all the tried-and-failed specimens I purchased, trucked in, planted, tended, and either rejoiced or mourned over. Or, alternatively, ripped out, chopped down, and consigned to the mulch pile. Because, in my yard, like professors seeking tenure, you either produce or perish.

Magnolia — Best climbing tree ever. But as a flower, forget it. The blooms are never low enough to cut, and besides, they only last a day. Leave it alone and just sniff the blooms big as plates. Come fall, your children can play army with the seedpods.

Gardenia — Only reliable if you live east of Raleigh. As for picked longevity, ditto the one-day warning above. Touch the vanilla petals and your invisible skin oils will brown them not invisibly. Heavenly aroma, though I rejected them in my wedding bouquet because the overpowering sweetness tends to provoke a gag reflex. Still, nice in a teacup or that silver scallop shell your grandmother used as an ashtray.

Camellia — Cannot be picked or arranged satisfactorily. For viewing only.

Bonus: unlike azaleas, stay glossy green all year.

Orange daylilies — My neighbor calls them “privy lilies,” presumably because folks once planted them to beautify the outhouse. But they beat the

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heck out of the stubby gold hybrids planted in interstate medians. Go for it.

Queen Anne’s lace — Field and roadside freebies, but bring them inside and they proceed to shed fine white dust all over everything.

Marigolds — Often dumped upon as plebeian blooms, but for this commoner, nothing smells as good as one of their stems, broken.

Cleome — Pink, pretty, proliferous, and self-seeding. What else could you ask for in an airy weed that loves neglect, red clay, and 1,000-degree days? In late summer, take the seeds to the office, to a friend, or, for that matter, to another place in the yard. Strew with abandon.

Black-eyed Susans — As the Chatham Blanket tagline once boasted, they cover a multitude of sins. Require little effort and even less skill to stuff in a glass, metal or pottery container. Do not disparage that which can withstand full sun when you can’t. You call them invasive, I call them indispensable.

Knockout roses — The Johnny-come-lately “it” flowering shrub. Utterly unpickable, but compensates for this shortcoming in sheer size and volume.

Peonies — The ultimate bloomer. Often disqualified for, as the farmers like to say, seasonality, but worth the wait, the space and the ants. Go ahead, gird your loins, and bring yourself to cut and enjoy them before a 20-minute thunderstorm causes irreparable loss and gnashing of teeth.

Hydrangeas — Bingo! Once upon a time, my mother referred to hydrangeas as “trash shrubs.” I love this. Or rather, I love reminding her of this now that no one can live without them.

Ivy — Just, no. You’ll be sorry. Plus, snakes like it. Use pachysandra instead.

There you have it. No more feeling humiliated by Biltmore with its perfect planters and borders and gardens featuring every floral texture and contrast and interest which nevertheless are superior to previously-envied Disney World’s planters and borders and gardens. Because Biltmore’s flowers actually grow, rather than simply get replaced by Snow White’s 426 dwarves every night.

Or, how not to waste your time or money on What Won’t Work Because We’re Not England. PS Susan Kelly is a blithe spirit, author of several novels, and proud new grandmother.

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