Southern Pines, when it was called Vineland, was once a place where trees were harvested andprocessed to the point of resource exhaustion. In the early 20th Century, Helen Boyd Dull,James Boyd’s aunt, was responsible for saving many of the trees of Weymouth, vestiges of the

virgin forest.

Hundreds of turpentine trees remain in Southern Pines, possibly more than in any other town inAmerica. Their trunks once gashed to let loose the flow of sap collected for turpentine, pitch androsin, are marked in a way that marks Southern Pines as a community, spared from the axe.

Today, The Walthour-Moss Foundation protects over 4,000 acres of long-leaf pine habitat thatcontains well over a hundred of the scarred pines once used for turpentine production. Recentlyhonored with yellow identification tags, the turpentine trees in the Walthour-Moss Foundation area living reminder of the cultural landscape that became Southern Pines, a town renamed for itstrees.

A spirit-filled woods, trees marked with V-shaped cuts by former slaves or theirdescendants, and an age-old tale about awoman’s heroic carriage ride into theregion’s last great stand of virgin longleafpines are the inspiration for Ray Owen’scultural theater production “Bleeding Pinesof Turpentine.” The Saturday, November5th event is co-sponsored by The Walthour-Moss Foundation, Sandhills CommunityCollege Fine Arts Department and ArtsCouncil of Moore County, in associationwith Perry Davis/Davis Video Productionsand will be held at 7:30 pm at the SandhillsCommunity College Owens Auditorium.

Foundation News

OCTOBER 2011

A PUBLICATION OF THEWALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION

The Walthour-Moss Foundation

Post Office Box 978

Southern Pines, NC 28388

From:

The Walthour-Moss FoundationBoard of Directors

Dan Butler

Jim Granito

Stephen Later

Richard Moore

Mark Packard

Dominick Pagnotta

Dennis Paules

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Rick Smith

L.P. Tate

Edward Taws, Jr.

James Van Camp

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Cameron Sadler

Neil Schwartzberg

L. P. Tate, Jr.

Virginia Thomasson

Katie Walsh

Richard Webb

Caroline Young

VOLUME SEVEN

THEWALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION IS PLEASED TO BE A SPONSOR OF“BLEEDING PINES OF TURPENTINE,”

A PLAY HONORING OUR CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

THE MISSION OF THE WALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION - “TO PRESERVE OPEN LAND,

TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND TO OFFER A PLACE FOR EQUESTRIAN PURPOSES”

Executive Director

Landon Russell

TURPENTINE TREES, MARKED WITH V-SHAPED CUTS

Photograph by Frank Hunter

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“Bleeding Pines of Turpentine” was performedin part and to much acclaim at the 2011Palustris Festival on March 26, and again onAugust 7, 2011 in Newry and Mourne, Irelandin conjunction with the Maiden of MourneFestival.

The November 5, 2011 performance at SandhillsCommunity College will be the first time thatthe entire play of three acts will be presented tothe public. Free tickets will be available startingon October 1st at Arts Council of MooreCounty/Campbell House Galleries, SandhillsCommunity College Library, Given Library, TheCountry Bookshop and Traveling Chic Boutiquein Southern Pines. Tickets may be reserved in

advance on The Walthour Moss FoundationWebsite: www.walthour-moss.org. For moreinformation visit www.mooreart.org, or contactthe Arts Council of Moore County at (910) 692-2787, E-mail: acmc@mooreart.org.

The production will utilize dance, music,projected images and dramatic readings in acelebration of the strange beauty of theturpentine trees. Based on a narrative writtenby Ray Owen, the performance will showcase avariety of talent. A ritual march by the St.Andrews Presbyterian College Pipe Band willsignal the start of the three-act program. ActOne, titled “The Thirsty Desert,” will feature amusical score by Ryan Book, who will

Photograph by Brady Beck

“BLEEDING PINES OF TURPENTINE” WILL BE PRESENTED ON THE OWENS AUDITORIUM STAGE AT SANDHILLS COMMUNITYCOLLEGE ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2011, 7:30PM.

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accompany Diana Turner-Forte in her dancecomposition inspired by the natural world.A backdrop to the piece will be a sequence ofprojected images by photographer Brady Beck– scenes of nature free from the hands of man.

Act Two, titled “The Siren of the Round TimberTract,” will be a dramatization of a storyoriginally written by Ray Owen for “PinestrawMagazine.” Owen will portray the “Spirit ofTurpentine,” with actress Abigail Dowdportraying the “Siren.” The part is based uponHelen Boyd Dull’s historic ride into the virginpines, known locally as round timber, where sheencountered turpentiners bleeding the trees inthe dying forest. Rod Brower and the Together-N-Unity Choir will provide the accompaniment,with their soulful renderings of traditionalAfrican American spirituals. The segment willalso feature historic images, along withphotographs taken by Caroline Young.

The third and final act, titled “Bleeding Pines ofTurpentine,” will feature an interpretive danceby Diana Turner-Forte, along with DanceFusion, the resident dance company of theCarolina Performing Center. Ryan Book willprovide the accompaniment. Projectedoverhead will be a series of images byphotographer Frank Hunter showing the rawbeauty of the surviving turpentine trees.

The performing artists, actors, singers,musicians, composers, photographers andwriter of this hauntingly beautiful performancewill bring their impressive talent to theSandhills Community College stage:

BRADY BECKphotographer & projectionist

Brady Beck was born in West Lafayette,Indiana. He moved with his family to Raleighin 1986. He earned a B.S. in Wildlife Sciencefrom North Carolina State University in 1992.Since then he has worked as a biologist forseveral conservation groups in the Sandhills. Hecurrently works on the Sandhills Game Land forthe NC Wildlife Resources Commission. Hisphotography interests sprouted from his love ofthe natural world. His images have beenpublished in “Wildlife in North Carolina,”“North Carolina Afield,” “Nature ConservancyMagazine,” “Snow‚” “Cut Monthly,” as well asseveral scientific journals featuring papers onRed Cockaded Woodpeckers. For moreinformation: bradybeckphotography.com.

RYAN BOOKcomposer & guitarist

Ryan Book began playing guitar at the age of 12.Throughout his late teens and early twenties hespent his time touring with various blues, rock,Christian and country bands. At the age of 20,he began studying classical guitar withinternationally renowned classical guitarist and

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pedagogue Robert Trent. He received hisMaster of Arts degree in classical guitarperformance and pedagogy from RadfordUniversity in 2009. It was in these years atRadford that Ryan had the opportunity to studywith some of the world‚ most acclaimedperformers including Jorge Caballero, CarloBarone, and Paul O’dette. Recent opportunitieshave included performances with theGreenbriar Valley Community Choir, The RUGuitar Quartet, and various solo performancesthroughout West Virginia and the East Coast.Ryan was recently appointed music instructorat Sandhills Community College where heteaches history, theory, guitar, and bass full-time.

ROD BROWER & TOGETHER-N-UNITY CHOIR

Mention gospel music to Rod Brower, thedirector of the Together-N-Unity choir, and joysweeps across his face. “Gospel music is for mea source of inner strength,” Brower says. “WhenI sing, it gives me hope, and it takes me toanother place outside the earthly realm.”Together-N-Unity has few peers in theSandhills, with their inspired renderings oftraditional African American spirituals. Theyare a leading representative of the region’songoing tradition of gospel music, based out ofthe 130 year old Fletcher Chapel UnitedMethodist Church in Hoffman, NC. This well-known community based group includesmembers of various religious denominationsfrom Cumberland, Moore, and Richmondcounties. The formation of this musical groupwas the result of a vision that Rod Brower hadto form a small, yet versatile group to travel andspread God’s message of hope and love throughsong. For more information:www.myspace.com/rodbrower.

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ABIGAIL DOWDactress & singer

Abigail Dowd is a singer/songwriter and formerarts educator who lives in Portland, Maine. ASandhills native, she has been singing since herchildhood, and grew up watching her greatgrandfather play the banjo in his old musicstore. It was an unspoken requirement thateveryone in the family play an instrument.Abigail picked up the guitar in her teens,studying for six years with master guitaristDanny Infantino. Abigail is a graduate of theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,where she studied Anthropology and CityPlanning. During her time in Southern Pines,she served on the Planning Board and TownCouncil. She also co-founded a classical artacademy that is considered the world’s finestschool of traditional mural painting.www.reverbnation.com/abigaildowd

FRANK HUNTERphotographer

Frank Hunter was born in El Paso, Texas, andgrew up in the Southwest desert. He earned anM.A. in communications from the University ofColorado and an M.F.A. in photography fromOhio University, where he was the John CadyGraduate Fellow in Fine Art. Hunter has taughtat the university level for more than twentyyears. His interest in photographic processincludes the technical aspect of exposure anddevelopment as well as the psychological andspiritual aspects of creating photographic work.Hunter is best known for his landscapephotographs done in the nineteenth-centuryprocess known as platinum/palladium. His

recent work includes a commission done for theFederal Reserve Bank documenting MidtownAtlanta at the turn of the millennium, whichwas shown at the High Museum in Atlanta in2003. His work is represented in a number ofpublic and private collections, including theSpeed Museum, the Denver Museum of Art, theHigh Museum, the Houston Museum of FineArts, and the collection of Sir Elton John. Theartist currently lives in North Carolina, wherehe teaches photography at Duke University. Formore information, visit www.frank-hunter.com.

Photograph by Frank Hunter

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RAY OWENwriter, director & producer

Ray Owen is a graphic artist, writer, andhistorian living in Southern Pines. His interestis telling stories that connect us with our past,and the cultural landscape we create. A pastpresident of the Moore County HistoricalAssociation, he has been a lender, guest lecturerand curator for museums locally and statewide.Among his projects was a two-year study ofregional craftsmanship resulting in the booklet“Plain-Style: The Work of 18th and 19thCentury Craftsmanship in Moore County, NC,”for which he received an award of specialrecognition by the NC Society of Historians in1994. He curated the first exhibition for theNorth Carolina Pottery Center, “A DifferentTurn,” and the Bluethantal Exhibit of JugtownPottery for the Greensboro Historical Museum.In 2010 he produced and directed the culturaltheater “Greeting the Train,” as part of theinaugural Palustris Festival. Owen serves on theboard of the Friends of Weymouth, and hasbeen a contributing writer for “PineStrawMagazine.” For more information:www.tclf.org/stewards/ray-owen.

ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIANCOLLEGE PIPE BAND

The St. Andrews Presbyterian College PipeBand was founded in 1991 as a project of thecollege’s Scottish Heritage Center. Since itsfounding the band has become one of the topcompeting pipe bands in the southern UnitedStates, and has been featured on NationalPublic Radio’s “The Thistle and Shamrock‚“aswell as on BBC Radio Scotland’s programs“Crunluath” and “Traveling Folk.” The band isinstructed by Pipe Major Bill Caudill withdrumming instruction by Tom Foote, and itsmembers are primarily students fromthroughout the United States and Canada.www.sapc.edu/shc/pipeband/index.php DIANA TURNER-FORTE

choreographer & dancer

Diana Turner-Forte is the Artistic Director ofCarolina Performing Arts Center. Herprofessional dance career spans over forty yearsand includes performing with the ChicagoBallet, San Diego Ballet, Des Moines Ballet,Ballet Met Columbus, and Taller Coreograficode la UNAM in Mexico City. Ms. Turner-Fortealso has an extensive background in artsadministration at both the regional (GreaterColumbus Arts Council) and state (Ohio ArtsCouncil as Education Director) levels. She holdsboth a B.A. and M.A. in Dance withcertifications in several areas related tomovement and brain-body awareness.Additionally, she holds memberships in theRoyal Academy of Dance, the National DanceEducation Organization and the NationalRegistry of Dance Educators. Ms. Turner-Forteis the author of Letters to Amelia published byVantage Press, she has been featured in Muse& Spirit, a publication of the Center for Faith

and the Arts, and has been recognized withawards and grants for her outstandingcontributions to the field of dance, including a2009 Piney Award for Excellence in Dance. Formore information on Ms. Turner-Forte, visitwww.cpac.webimaginarium.com/instructors/diana-turner-forte or www.dianaturner-forte.com.

CAROLINE YOUNGphotographer

Caroline Young is a photographer, artist andavid horsewoman. Originally from Greenville,South Carolina, she has lived in Southern Pinesfor 18 years. Caroline has taken numerouscourses at the Santa Fe PhotographyWorkshops, in addition to studying with JeffreyMims at The Academy of Classical Design andwith Denise Drum Baker at SandhillsCommunity College. Her interests includecultural and environmental preservation, aswell as community outreach. She is activelyinvolved in the Sandhills/Moore Coalition forHuman Care, the Boys and Girls Club of theSandhills and The Walthour-Moss Foundation.The mother of two children, she resides on afarm in Vass with her husband, Wade.

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Photograph by Caroline Young

Photograph by Tim Sayer

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FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION ONTHE TURPENTINE INDUSTRY... SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

“Bleeding Pines of Turpentine”Saturday, November 5, 2011

7:30 p.m.Owens Auditorium,

Sandhills Community College

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Panel DiscussionSunday, November 6, 2011

2:30 p.m.Douglass Community Center,

Southern Pines

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There will be a panel discussion about thereality behind cultural theater performance,"Bleeding Pines of Turpentine," at 2:30 pm onSunday, November 6, 2011, at the DouglassCommunity Center, 1185 West PennsylvaniaAvenue, in Southern Pines. The event is freeand open to the public.

Panelists include: Southern Pines writer andhistorian Ray Owen, Bruce Sorrie, botanistfor the North Carolina Natural HeritageProgram, turpentine scholar Earl Ijameswith the North Carolina Museum of History,Larry Earley, former editor of Wildlife in NC& author of "Looking for Longleaf," andAimmie Jenkins, founder of the SandhillsFamily Heritage Association. Mrs. Jenkins is aSandhills native whose father worked in the tarand turpentine industry.

The panel will touch on an array of subjectsincluding: the turpentine industry in NorthCarolina, the lives of the turpentiners, thenature of the longleaf pine forest and it'sdecline, current stewardship practices of theecosystem, and the fate of the remainingturpentine trees - a silence and diverse aspectof Southern material culture. Recent threats tothe Sandhills forest land include a possiblehighway project that would destroy more thatten thousand trees. The panel discussion willbe filmed, and incorporated into adocumentary currently being produced aboutthe play.

A brief cameo performance of "Bleeding Pinesof Turpentine," will be performed prior to the

panel discussion to set the tone for a dialogueabout this remarkable aspect of ourcommunity. Inspired by the true story ofHelen Boyd Dulls' historic carriage ride intothe region's last stand of virgin longleaf pines,the multi-arts performance tells the story ofthe trees and the way we have marked thisland in a way that marks us as a community.

“Bleeding Pines of Turpentine”and Turpentine panel discussion

sponsors:

The Arts Council of Moore CountySandhills Community College

Fine Arts DepartmentThe Walthour-Moss Foundation

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The next time you visit The Walthour-MossFoundation set your watch back 100 years orso and become a Tar Heal. Around the turn ofthe last century the lands that are now part ofThe Foundation were used to produce tar,pitch, and turpentine for the naval storesindustry. Our longleaf pines were tapped or'bled' for their lemon-fragrant sap. Most of thetrees did not survive their four-year deathsentence. In the first year, turpentine seasonbegins in late winter before the sap flows withthe cutting of 'boxes'. A broad gash aboutseven inches deep and 14 inches long is cut justabove the base of the tree, making a kind ofbox. The cut is V-shaped, slanting from theoutside, thus forming a reservoir which holdsabout 3 pints. When the sap begins to flow inearly spring the trees would be 'chipped',removing strips about 2 inches wide starting atthe corners of the box to a height of about 10inches and 1 inch deep below the bark. Thisprocess of chipping or hacking would continueuntil October. In the first year the chipping andhacking would grow to a wound about 24inches high and by the fourth and last year sixto eight feet. The quality of the sap was best inthe first year and degraded in subsequentyears. The sap was collected and distilled intoturpentine right here in Manly, as it wasconvenient to the railroad.

Some trees did survive and stand in statelydefiance; offering us a trip into history. As apart of our continuing effort to preserve theintegrity of the landscape, we have catalogued

over 100 turpentine trees within our borders.Some can be seen from the trails, which mostlikely date to the same period as the network oftrails used to collect the sap of the turpentineproducing trees. Yadkin Road also known asthe buffalo trail, Old Mail Road, and MayStreet near the North Carolina StateVeterinary Equine Center exhibit clusters ofsurviving trees. Trees that we have cataloguedare marked with yellow diamond shaped signsfor identification. The turpentine treesrepresent an integral part of our history andpreservation efforts. If you encounter an un-marked turpentine tree in your time travels

please send us an email.

THE TURPENTINE TREESOF THEWALTHOUR-MOSS

FOUNDATION

A special thank you to Innovative Real Estatefor providing the turpentine tree markers.

WALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBER

DOMINICK PAGNOTTA IDENTIFIES AND INVENTORIES A

TURPENTINE TREE ON THE FOUNDATION NEARMAY STREET.

Photograph by Cindy Pagnotta

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There are several upcoming events in whichyour participation is needed to save The Walthour-Moss Foundation and HorseCountry. The North Carolina Department ofTransportation and the Moore CountyPlanning Department are, once again,considering plans for a U.S. Highway 1 Bypassaround Aberdeen and Southern Pines.

This could be an 11-mile to 18-mile longhighway to the east of Aberdeen and SouthernPines through Horse Country.

Our towns are regional destinations for workand retail activities—there is very little“through traffic” to use a bypass highway.NCDOT admits that it has not yet conductedthe actual traffic surveys to determine theorigins and destinations of the traffic on U.S.Highway 1. Those of us who live here knowthat this will likely be a “Road to Nowhere”with a price tag of well over one hundredmillion dollars.

WMF Information MeetingsTuesday, October 18, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.

Sunrise Theater, Broad Street, Southern Pines

The WMF will host two informational sessionsabout U.S. Highway 1 on Tuesday, October 18,2011 and on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at theSunrise Theater. We encourage you to attendone of these two meetings at which we willprovide updated information, conduct aquestion-and-answer period, and, mostimportantly, let you know how to make yourvoice heard.

SAVE OUR HORSE COUNTRY NCDOT and the Moore CountyPlanning Department Charette Events

Tuesday, November 1, 20113-5 p.m. Pinehurst Fair Barn

6-8p.m. Aberdeen Lake Park Recreation Station

Wednesday, November 2, 20111-3p.m. Old West End Center

6-8pm Carthage Community Building

Thursday, November 3, 2011 1-3p.m. Cameron Fire Department

6-8p.m. Village Pinehurst Assembly Hall

Friday, November 4, 20119:30-11:30 a.m. The Douglass Community

Center, Southern Pines

NCDOT and the Moore County PlanningDepartment will host workshops at which thegeneral public is invited to participate inplanning exercises related to routes forhighway projects—including a U.S. Highway 1bypass—in Moore County. Please keep thesedates open. Your participation in theseworkshops is critical to our efforts to saveHorse Country. We will discuss strategy atthe October 18 and October 25 WMFmeetings at the Sunrise Theater andurge you to attend one of these twosessions.

The horse business generates $165,915,000.00per year in local spending in Moore County—don’t be taken for granted!

Please see walthour-moss.org for furtherinformation and the address of each charettesite.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011: AFTER FOUR HOURS OF TRAIL

CLEARING, THE 2011 BUSHWHACKER CLUB MET FOR LUNCH

CLIPPING AND TRIMMING: THE 2011 BUSHWHACKER CLUB

On Sunday, September 18, over eighty-fivevolunteers turned out for the firstBushwhacker Club meeting of 2011. Many,many thanks to each and every one of ourwonderful volunteers!

If you would like to join the Bushwhacker Club,we will be meeting again on Sunday, October16. Please email Landon Russell for moreinformation at director@walthour-moss.org.

Photograph by Landon Russell

2011 FALL RIDES

Sunday, October 30

19th Annual Hunter Pace

Moore County Hounds

Hobby Field

Sunday, November 6

5th Annual Ride for the Horse

U.S. Equine Rescue League

Moor Meadow

WHAT’S IN BLOOM?

SANDHILLS GOLDEN-ASTER (PITYOPSIS PINIFOLIA) IS APERENNIAL TO 0.5 M TALL (OFTEN SMALLER) WITH SLENDER

STEMS AND CROWDED LINEAR LEAVES 7-10 CM LONG. YELLOWRAY AND DISC FLOWERS GROW IN A FLAT-TOPPEDINFLORESCENCE. THIS SPECIES IS FOUND IN DRY, SANDY SOILOF LONGLEAF PINELAND, TURKEY OAK SCRUB AND ROADSIDES.IT IS ENDEMIC TO THE SANDHILLS REGION, DOCUMENTEDONLY FROM TEN COUNTIES IN NC.

SANDHILLS CHAFFHEAD (CARPHEPHORUS BELIDIFOLIUS)IS A PERENNIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SANDHILLS.OUTSIDE THE CAROLINA SANDHILLS IT IS ONLY FOUND IN A

SMALL AREA NEAR AUGUSTA, GA. IT HAS ONE TO SEVERAL

STEMS TO 52 CM TALL. THE NUMEROUS BASAL LEAVES ARE 20CM LONG AND 3 CM WIDE, LONG STALKED AND BLUNT TIPPED.THE INFLORESCENCE IS AS BROAD AS LONG, MUCH-BRANCHEDWITH MANY HEADS, 12-18 MM WIDE. THE DISC FLOWERS AREDEEP PINK TO ROSE PURPLE AND ATTRACT MANY BUTTERFLIES,ESPECIALLY SKIPPERS. IT INHIBITS TURKEY OAK SCRUB AND

DRY LONGLEAF PINELANDS, EVEN IN BARE SAND.

Photograph by Katie Walsh

Photograph by Katie Walsh

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