May 2011 Volume 6, No. 5 Departments
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Sweet Tea Chronicles Jim Dodson PinePitch Cos and Effect Cos Barnes The Omnivorous Reader Stephen E. Smith Bookshelf The Evolving Species Deborah Salomon Hitting Home Dale Nixon Vine Wisdom Robyn James The Kitchen Garden Jan Leitschuh Spirits Frank Daniels III Letters from the Sandhills Tom Allen Birdwatch Susan Campbell Pleasures of Life Sandy Corr The Sporting Life Tom Bryant Golftown Journal Lee Pace Calendar SandhillSeen Thoughts from the Man Shed Geoff Cutler The Accidental Astrologer Astrid Stellanova PineNeedler Mart Dickerson SouthWords Pat Taylor
Features
58 The Future of Golf
61 Short and Sweet
Barney Adams
70 Affordable Golf
Richard Mandell
73 Rebirth of a Legend
74 Dame Glenna
76 Music to our Ears
Ashley Wahl
78 The Golden Girls
Laura L. Gingerich
83 Story of a House
99 The Garden Path
Jim Dodson
To grow again, golf needs to learn from its golden past. A pioneer of the game believes it’s high time we made golf a realistic length — and grow the game again. Value and accessibility will assure a bright tomorrow. Lee Pace
How the restoration of No. 2 may inspire a new golden age of design. Joyce Reehling
Forget the “Female Bobby Jones” business. Our writer says Glenna Vare was a gal for today. A visionary plan to create a world-class performing arts center in the Home of American Golf. When women turn fifty, wisdom ripens.
Deborah Salomon
Elegant Inchalene is reborn as a designer show house. Ruth Stolting
It’s bee season at the Stolting farm. Oh, sweet.
Cover photograph and other views of early Pinehurst provided by the Tufts Archives
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