October 2011 Volume 6, No. 10 Departments
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Features
Sweet Tea Chronicles Jim Dodson
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PinePitch Postcard from Nicaragua
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Cos and Effect Cos Barnes The Omnivorous Reader
Cassie Butler
Stephen E. Smith
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Bookshelf Hitting Home Dale Nixon The Kitchen Garden Jan Leitschuh Vine Wisdom Robyn James Spirits Frank Daniels III Out of the Blue Deborah Salomon Birdwatch Susan Campbell The Sporting Life Tom Bryant Golftown Journal Lee Pace The Hot Ticket
59 Gone With The Wind (Take Two) Our fashion homage to the classic Southern saga
70 Coffee With Birch Can a coffee mug kill? New fiction by Mary Von Canon Sisk
72 Bleeding Pines By Ray Owen
74 PS Traveler By Maria Johnson
76 Story of a House By Deborah Salomon
The story of turpentine in the Sandhills does an encore This charming Star inn haunts with hospitality Arnold slept here — and many others
83 Garden Almanac: October The skinny on cider-making season
Ashley Wahl
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Calendar SandhillSeen Thoughts From The Manshed
Geoff Cutler
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The Accidental Astrologer
Astrid Stellanova
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PineNeedler 112 SouthWords
Mart Dickerson Steve Bouser
Cover Photograph by Tim Sayer Our models are Kimberly Daniels and John Taws Hair by K athe Taylor of Taylor David Salon. Makeup by Molly Parsons of Beaute Apothecarie 2
October 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills