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Little Big Man How mighty mite Alfred Moore became our county’s namesake By Bill Case By 1781, the Revolutionary War had raged in America for five years. North Carolina had mostly escaped armed [...]

Miller Time Pinehurst played a starring role By Lee Pace Johnny Miller is perhaps best remembered around Pinehurst for his stirring playoff victory over Jack Nicklaus and Frank Beard for the 1974 [...]

Look Both Ways Janus sees two sides to every story By Deborah Salomon As the year winds down and Christmas draws nigh, I think of Janus, the Roman god of transitions for whom January was named, [...]

Holiday Pairs The best of the best at Christmas By Angela Sanchez The Christmas season is a cornucopia of traditions, great and small, and food and wine are among them. Children learn to leave [...]

Christmas Poem I cannot write a Christmas poem for you, not with all those slick verses oozing through the mail, the schmaltzy music whining on the radio. But what I can do is tell you of a [...]

A Masterpiece that Matters To Kill a Mockingbird continues to resonate By D.G. Martin Last October, on the final episode of PBS’s The Great American Read, Harper Lee’s 1960 Southern classic To [...]

Brilliant and Batty A cold moon rising ramps things up for the ramped-up December born By Astrid Stellanova My Grandpa talked about the Cold Moon, which is what the old-timers used to call the [...]

Poetry and Protest The gravity of the written and spoken word By Wiley Cash   •   Photographs by Mallory Cash Khalisa Rae is a star, and like a star her presence bends the fabric of the universe [...]

Same Time, Last Year A Tudor manor steeped in Yule for a special occasion By Deborah Salomon   •   Photographs by John Gessner Never again will Le Berceau be as lavishly adorned for Christmas as [...]

Open House Tours Enjoy the beautiful decorations and holiday music in the Great Room at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, from Thursday, Dec. [...]