A Newsletter for the Friends of Weymouth                                                             Winter 2010

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH BOARD

 The Friends of Weymouth Board extends its sincere appreciation to the most important group at Weymouth: the Volunteers!  Weymouth relies totally on volunteers for all its functions, from the governing body to the all-important task of maintaining the gardens and grounds.

 Many lovely concerts and outstanding lectures were enjoyed in 2009, all planned and instituted by volunteers.  They work sacrificially and diligently behind the scenes to share the mystique of Weymouth with the community.

 The Board joins with Weymouth members in recognizing Hope Price and Alex Klalo for their dedicated service.

 Happy New Year to all!

 Mabel Barker, President

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS by Elaine Sills, Chairman

JANUARY 10, 2010:  Aurora Musicalis with Brian Reagin, Concertmaster with the NC Symphony; Elizabeth Beilman,  Cellist, Jimmy Gilmore, Clarinet, and John Noel, Pianist.  They will perform “Blue Sonata” for piano trio by Mark Scearce, a Solo Clarinet Piece by Karel Husa, both North Carolina composers, John Williams “Air and Simple Gifts” and Antonin Dvorak’s “Trio in F Minor.  Glenn Brillhart, former music chair, “discovered Aurora Musicalis” and they’ve been part of the Weymouth family ever since.  Visit their new website at auroramusicalis.com for more information.

 FUNDRAISER:FEBRUARY 26, 2010:  Fred Moyer, pianist, and Nancy Green, cellist will return to present a Gala Concert to benefit Weymouth programs.  Moyer and Green are the grandchildren of North Carolina author/playwright Paul Green, friend of James and Katharine Boyd, and a staunch visionary and supporter on the saving and preservation of Boyd House “to be used as a center for education, literary, social and civic research…for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations of the public.”  Samuel T. Ragan

The concert will begin at 7:00 o’clock in the evening and will be followed by a reception coordinated by the Music, Development, and Thirtieth Committees.

Admission will be $50.00 for Weymouth members and $60 for non-members, with all proceeds designated for programming.  Please call the office for reservations, 692-6261, space is limited.

 Marshall Berg, who first invited Moyer and Green for a Gala Concert in 2002, is sponsoring this special occasion.

MARCH 7, 2010:  Louise Toppin, Coloratura Soprano, David Heid, Pianist, and Timothy Holley, Cellist will present a program originally performed at the North Carolina Museum of Art.  Look for more information in the Pilot prior to the concert.

APRIL 11, 2011: Jonathan Bagg, ET. AL.: Soprano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Harp performing Elena Ruehr’s “Exodus” based on poems by Samuel T. Ragan, Dan Locklair’s “Dreamsteps” with flute, viola and harp, and more. The spring Newsletter will provide additional details.

All concerts are at 3 o’clock in the Great Room. Admission to all concerts, except for the Moyer- Green Gala on February 26 at 7 p.m., is by membership or $15.00 for non-members, at the door.

Committee:  Patricia Dawes, Ted Dawes, Ralph Jacobson, Jeffrey Mims, Sondra Nelson, Lena S. Brillhart, Ex-Officio, and Elaine M. Sills, Chair  

YOUNG MUSICIANS’ FESTIVAL, MARCH 20-21, 2010 

This festival, initiated by Amelia Rose Ehrhardt in the early 80’s, has become an annual event. Designed to involve young people at Weymouth, young musicians in grades four through twelve perform for judges who critique each performance for the benefit of the student and teacher.  Twelve finalists are selected for a Finalists’ Concert .

Young Musicians from Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland, Hoke, and Lee Counties will be invited to participate for the second year.  The Festival will be sponsored by Dr. Joseph Skladany.

 YMF Committee:  Sue Aceves, Shelly Johnson, and Elaine Sills.

ARTS & HUMANITIES by Deirdre Newton

Morgan Sills Returns to Weymouth in January

Saturday, January 30, will be a big day for Weymouth Center.  The Arts and Humanities Committee will again host talented New York artist Morgan Sills in a program he is writing and producing on the lyrics and career of Oscar Hammerstein, who worked during a 40-year period with several of Broadway’s most talented composers, especially Sigmund Romberg (The Desert Song), Jerome Kern (Showboat), and Richard Rodgers (Oklahoma, South Pacific, Sound of Music).  Hammerstein wrote the lyrics for some of the most famous songs of American 20^th century musical theater:  “Ole Man River,” “Oklahoma,” “Some Enchanted Evening,” “The Sound of Music.”  It will be a pleasure to hear Morgan perform some of these for us at Weymouth.  He again will be accompanied by talented pianist Ed Goldschneider.  And it is likely they will add a double bass player to their ensemble this time.

Morgan Sills grew up in Southern Pines and received a BA in English and Theater at Wake Forest University.  For the past several years he has been a Manhattan based performer and writer with important roles in musicals such as Forever Plaid and Iolanthe.  He has also toured the country, performed in cabaret shows, and in January 2008 he presented to a sold-out crowd one of the most popular shows ever seen at Weymouth—“Morgan Sings Mercer,” the songs and life of Johnny Mercer.

For the Oscar Hammerstein show there will be an afternoon matinee at 2 pm and an evening performance at 7 pm followed by a reception to meet the artists.  Please see the last page of this Newsletter for admission and reservation details.

Proceeds from this concert will benefit the Weymouth Sunday afternoon programs.

The Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration Moves into 2010!

With the opening Chamber Music Concert presenting Aurora Musicalis with North Carolina Symphony musicians, the legacy between Weymouth and the symphony continues.

The history of the symphony is directly linked through the Boyds, Benjamin and Maxine Swaline and Adeline McCall, education consultant for 49 years with the symphony.  The educational concerts for the young children of Southern Pines and later Moore County Schools, were a benefit for the schools in communities who sponsored the evening concerts.  Katharine Boyd personally sponsored an additional concert in for West Southern Pines, before the schools were integrated  in 1969.

All events planned for the coming months celebrate Weymouth’s history as they represent the early work of the founders, so in that sense a celebration occurs each time an event takes place.

The opening 30^th Anniversary events of 2010 are as follows:

February 16:  James Boyd Book Club with Dotty Starling, Weymouth Librarian, 2 pm

February 26:  Gala Concert featuring Nancy Green, Cellist and Fred Moyer, Pianist, 7 pm, fundraiser

March 11:  Music and Lunch with Lydia Gill and Maryann Cantrell- Colas, Pianists, noon

March 20-21:  Young Musicians Festival

March 26:  Reader’s Theatre featuring “A Thousand Things …” by Stephen Smith: 7 o’clock, Great Room

April 10:  Young People and “Haiku” with Malaika Albrecht, 1 pm

April 11:  Chamber Music Concert featuring Elena Ruehr’s “Exodus” based on poems by Samuel Ragan.

April 23:  Architectural Tour featuring homes designed by Aymar Embury and Alfred B. Yeomans

As Weymouth moves forward into the future, it is hoped that the reflection provided by the legacies of the early founders, such as Samuel T. Ragan, Elizabeth S. Ives, and Paul Green will continue to inspire and profoundly shape the future as recorded by history.  These leaders, and others, gave birth to Weymouth, a cultural center for the area, North Carolina and beyond.  Our role is to follow their example by lifting the spirit of all people who come here with programs that represent the noblest examples of the arts & humanities.

Thirtieth Anniversary Committee:  Shirley Frei, Andrea Wise-Leech, Jeffrey Mims, Stephen Smith,  Jane Wellard,  Mabel Barker, FOW President: Ex-Officio; Elaine M. Sills, Chair

FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES

Modern American Landscape Painters:

Turning Nature into Art

Modern Art arrived in America in the early 20^th century at a small New York City gallery. There photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz introduced the works of European avant-garde artists, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, to a circle of adventurous young Americans, who found in the French masters an inspiration for their own innovative styles of painting. This younger generation, including John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe and the photographer Paul Strand, adopted the techniques of abstraction to their native subject matter. In their determination to invent an art that was both modern and American, they focused on Manhattan city dwellers and skyscrapers, as well as their native landscape. Their intent was to communicate not only the grandeur of soaring urban monuments, but also the spiritual traditions of their homeland.

 

This lecture series will trace the development of uniquely American forms of modern landscape art as painters and sculptors scattered to distant parts of the country and invented new techniques to express their responses to new environments. Some artists of the Stieglitz circle have become identified in our minds with specific regions, for example, Marin with the rocky Maine coast and O’Keeffe with the spare horizons of New Mexico. As these artists became rooted in their surroundings, they refined their visual language, based on rhythmic lines, powerful shapes and vivid colors, to express the mystery and sublimity of nature. In the next generation, Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock extended the possibilities of an anti-naturalistic style of painting when he dispensed entirely with recognizable images. His monumental abstract drip paintings of the late 1940s communicate the artist’s personal experience of nature through skeins of paint and whorls of color. Late 20^th century sculptors like Robert Smithson, Christo and Andy Goldsworthy introduced a new form of landscape art when they traveled to important sites to construct massive earthworks or to modify pristine nature with the addition of man-made materials. Though the sculptors worked on a monumental scale, their constructed interventions or modifications to the landscape accomplished the same purpose as earlier paintings by Stieglitz circle artists:  they forced the viewer to see nature anew, often by suggesting unseen processes and contingencies.

 Lecture #1 – Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 10:00 a.m, by Dr. Molly Gwinn

Learning from the French Avant-Garde: John Marin & Paul Strand

The artists and photographers who gathered in Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue took what they needed from the exhibited drawings of Cézanne and Picasso: a pictorial language that would express the modernity of New York. Marin wanted to show “what a great city was doing,” and his images of Wall Street  skyscrapers and the Brooklyn Bridge seem to dance to the rhythm of his modified cubist style. Photographer Strand reduced his views of elevated tracks and city backyards to geometric patterns that resembled the elegant abstractions of European artists. In the 1920s, both artists shifted their focus to rural communities and captured the rugged Yankee spirit in landscapes and portrait.

Lecture #2 – Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 10:00 a.m., by Dr. Molly Gwinn

Escape to the Southwest: Georgia O’Keeffe

 O’Keeffe discovered the true subjects of her art after she settled in New Mexico in the 1930s. The images that she painted there, including monumental flowers, bleached bones and limitless skies, express her deep connection to the untouched landscapes and indigenous Native American culture of the region. Like a number of her colleagues in the Stieglitz circle who also traveled west, she found in the native communities compelling evidence that New Mexico was the most American place of the modern era and home to our enduring social values of equality and diversity. 

Lecture #3 – Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 10:00 a.m, by Dr. Molly Gwinn

Artist as Force of Nature:  Jackson Pollock

Pollock once said, “I am nature,” as if to excuse the absence of recognizable subject matter in his vast compositions. In truth, his response to natural phenomena, and not the appearance of specific objects, drove his creative process of pouring, dripping or splattering paint across a canvas spread on the studio floor. Pollock’s inventive technique established a new set of priorities for artists; art was about the process of self-realization and it depended on improvisation and accident, not ideas and certainty. However, Pollock’s roots ran deep; he admired predecessors like Marin, whose energy enlivens his pictorial structures, and the ideas of Walt Whitman, whose rhetoric of absolute equality is played out in the all-over movement of the drip paintings. 

 Lecture #4 – Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 10:00 a.m, by Denise Drum Baker

Environmental Earthworks:

Robert Smithson, Christo and Andy

Earthworks was a movement that emerged in America during the 1960s, when a number of artists determined to heighten public awareness of man’s relationship with the natural world by intervening in the landscape with a series of thought provoking constructions. Environmental sculpture included a range of projects, from monuments like the massive and enduring “Spiral Jetty” built by Smithson in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, to experiences that engaged a community over a finite period of time like Christo’s “Running Fence” on the northern California coast. Although the precise meaning of each construction varied, the underlying aim was always to create artistic imagery using earth, rocks, soil and other natural material and thus to increase our sensibility towards the environment.

About the Lecturers: 

Dr. Molly Gwinn is an art historian who has presented the spring lecture series in the past and has offered courses at the Center for Creative Retirement at Sandhills Community College.  She earned her doctorate from Rutgers University and has taught art history at Rutgers, the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University and the Dallas Museum of Art. She is the daughter of the late Barbara Sutherland, a well-known Southern Pines artist and a long-time resident of Penick Village. 

Denise Drum Baker is an artist and professor of visual arts at Sandhills Community College. She earned her Master’s from Appalachian State University. Her list of awards and honors include Faculty Exchange from The Newry Institute in Northern Ireland; Fulbright Teacher Exchange Scholarship Nominee; and a Distance Learning Instructor for the NC Museum of Art. She most recently completed work on Crossing the Atlantic—an exchange project with her Ireland colleagues demonstrating the lost art of letter-writing.

COST (per lecture):  $10 for ACMC & Weymouth Members / $15 for Non-members

All Lectures will be presented at Weymouth Center (555 East Connecticut Avenue, Southern Pines).
Space is limited.  Please register now with full payment at the Arts Council Moore County’s offices
at Campbell House (482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines), or by calling 910-692-ARTS (2787).

DEVELOPMENT by Deirdre Newton, Chair

The Development Committee has been working on sponsorships during the fall months.  We have been quite successful in acquiring donations from local businesses for the Christmas House events, for the Sunday afternoon concerts, the Ragan Writers series lectures, the Young Musicians Festival in March, the Weymouth Gardens, and the Morgan Sills concert in January.

We are still working on a few more sponsors for the concerts and are hoping for at least one more generous sponsorship.

We are pleased and grateful that we have been able to raise approximately $23,000 since last summer in support of the Weymouth programs.  This figure does not include the monies that we will receive for the Garden Tour next year.

The Development Committee has also suggested having a raffle of vacation houses in the spring to raise money for operating expenses this year.  This is still in the talking stage, as are the plans for the Capital Campaign next year.

Many thanks to all members of the Development Committee for their untiring work and also for their inventive ideas of ways to help Weymouth financially.

Moore Co. Writers’ Competition Guidelines Available by Karen Gilchrist, Chair

The Moore County Writers’ Competition, sponsored by the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities and underwritten by a generous grant from The Donald and Elizabeth Cooke Foundation, is now accepting submissions for the twenty-second annual writing contest.  The committee includes members Malaika Albrecht, Cos Barnes, and Cynthia Miecznikowski. We are once again very thrilled and grateful to have the kind support from The Cooke Foundation to continue this annual literary event..

The competition is open to students and residents of Moore County, NC, and grouped according to age: grades 1-4, grades 5-8, grades 9-12, and adult.  Submission categories are poetry (60 lines maximum), fiction (2500 words maximum), and nonfiction (2500 words maximum); writers may submit one manuscript in each category.  This year’s judges, provided by the North Carolina Writers Network, are Carol-Faye Ashcroft, fiction; Jennifer Hubbard, poetry; and John Grooms, nonfiction.

First-, second-, and third-place winners in each age group receive prizes of $100, $50, and $25, respectively; honorable mentions receive a certificate.  The 2010 Writers’ Competition booklet will include the winning manuscripts.

Entries should be postmarked or delivered to the Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Avenue, P.O. Box 939, Southern Pines, NC 28388, by Friday, February 5, 2010.  The committee will notify winners by the middle of March 2010.  First-place winners will read selections from their winning entries at an awards presentation at Weymouth Center on Sunday, April 25, 2010. 

Submission guidelines are available at area libraries, the Country Bookshop, the Weymouth Center, and the Arts Council of Moore County, or online at weymouthcenter.org.  Additionally, guidelines were mailed to all of Moore County’s public and private schools in December.

For more information, call 690-1098 and leave a message. 

WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH by Ann Arnold, President

Happy New Year!

First of all, a tremendous thanks to the multitude of talented volunteers who, once again, turned the Boyd home into a virtual fantasyland for Christmas House. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year. The rooms were beautifully decorated, music was provided at selected times, cookies and refreshments were abundant and beautifully served, the outside approach to Weymouth was festive, there were many special events taking place from time to time—all in all this was a gift to the entire community and everyone involved should know how very appreciated they are.  I cannot think of any other venue with so much to offer and done to such perfection. Thank you, each and every one.

The Women of Weymouth will start the New Year on January 18 with coffee and refreshments at 9:30 a.m., and our meeting at 10:00 a.m. We look forward to interesting and diverse programs:

• January 18: a program by Sandy Berger, speaking on the newest computer gadgets: “All You Need to Know to Amaze and Astound Your Kids and Grandkids.”
• February 15: A volunteer from the Carolina Tiger Rescue will be speaking about their wildlife sanctuary whose mission is saving and protecting cats in captivity and in the wild.
• March 15: Mitch Capel, storyteller, is scheduled to speak.
• April 19: Helen O. Von Salzen will speak on “Tea Time Topics” associated with the era of the Boyds during their time at Weymouth.
• May 17:  Strawberry Festival

We will have a Spring fundraiser — details to be determined and announced by our Ways and Means Committee.

It is a distinct pleasure being associated with such a wonderful organization as the Women of Weymouth. Thank you for your support.

Christmas House 2009 not only has arrived, but also is now an event of the past.  Hard to believe the Women of Weymouth started this past May to prepare for this Christmas House.  We had an absolutely marvelous committee, it seems every year they get better!  Our theme this year was “Christmas in the Pines.”  We were able to decorate the house, in what we feel was close to the way the Boyd’s would have liked it.  The simplicity created by all the decorators, garden clubs, and florist was so remarkable that our guests felt they were transcended to yester year.

As chairman, I wish to thank all my committee chairmen and their committees, as well as all the different decorators and the public, for their continued support of Christmas House at Weymouth.  This is truly a labor of love and respect for this beautiful home.

Our special events were The Preview Party, Carols, Candlelight Tour and a fun House Tour with children and their families, concluding with a visit with Santa and his elf.  Boyd House filled with children just warms and brightens this HOME.

Not to be forgotten are Hope Price and Alex Klalo for without their time and patience with the Women of Weymouth we would have a hard time going forward.  Thank you both for everything you do to support all of our events.

Please recognize the Christmas House Chairmen:  Co Chairmen: Jean Neil and Charlotte Rodman. Committee Chairmen: Carolyn Alli, Helen Brissette, Elaine Sills, Cathy Jones, Kitti Pyne, Jackie Rosenblum, Barbara Dvorozniak, Marion Gaida, Ro Kachel, Nancy Weisser. Elizabeth Kimsey, Kathy Evans, Shirley Frei, Mabel Barker, Diane McCarthy, Gerry Turk, Marcia Kransicky, Ann Hobson, Al Daniels,Heidi Cross, Cynthia McIver, Alice Craig, Mary Lou Boniface, Sybil Ryan and not the forget our husbands that are always ready to pitch in, when and where needed.

Carol Van Zanten, Christmas House Chairman

THE JAMES BOYD LIBRARY  By Dotty Starling

Book Club:  Good reading for after Christmas– Drums, a novel about a young North Carolina boy and the American Revolution.  Drums will be the topic for the first Book Club meeting Tuesday, 16^th February 2010, at 2 pm.  There are copies of Drums at area libraries; many low-priced used copies can be found on websites such as Amazon.com, Alibris.com, and eBay. 

Drums is a must-read for all Friends of Weymouth members.  The Boyd House is on the National Register of Historic Places because of James Boyd and his influence on literature in North Carolina.  

COME ONE, COME ALL The James Boyd Library joins the Celebration of the Friends of Weymouth 30^th Anniversary with a Book Club to read Boyd’s works.   All meetings will be on the third Tuesday of the month, at 2 pm, February through May.  On Tuesday, February 16^th, we will discuss Drums, James Boyd’s first and most famous novel.   Please come and join us.

MEMBERSHIP  by Barbara Dvorozniak and Pat Williams Dawes, Co-Chairs

The membership chairmen would like to thank the members for getting their 2009-2010 dues in, and to welcome our new members. Those who haven’t yet renewed, it is not too late. There are many programs left in the season to look forward to as described in this newsletter. We ask all members to continue to support Weymouth and encourage your friends to come and join this wonderful Center for the Arts and Humanities. 

WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM by Cos Barnes, Chairman

We are excited about a program planned for both children and adults on Sunday afternoon, March 14^th at 3 pm at Weymouth.  One of our Writers-in-Residence, Frances Outhwaite, who is the Alamance Country Coordinator for the North Carolina Bluebird Society, and her friend, Pamela F. Kirby, who has just published a book, “What Bluebirds Do,” will share with us their bountiful knowledge of bluebirds.  They will have displays, tips on establishing nesting sites, and a wealth of other knowledge.  We hope you will come and encourage our younger friends.

WEYMOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE by Jane Wellard, Chairman

A VALUABLE GIFT:

As she has done so graciously many times over the years, Lena Stewart Brillhart has given a valuable gift to Weymouth.  Consisting of several Japanese woodblock prints and two paintings on silk, cursory evaluation of the art works places them in or before the Meiji Period in Japan (1867-1912).  A professional appraisal is being sought to determine valuations and to confirm whether the works are from renowned Meiji Period artists, or from earlier, lesser known, therefore, rare artists.  We look forward to learning more about Lena’s gift and extend our heartfelt gratitude to her for all that she has contributed over the years, and continues to contribute right up to the present, for Weymouth’s benefit.  She is an outstanding benefactor.  Thank you, Lena.

RETURN OF THE HUNT:

A significant part of the Boyd Legacy has been missing from Weymouth for some years.  The Moore County Hunt, established by James and Jackson Boyd as the Hounds, and last held at Weymouth in 1974, is about to be seen again on this property.  Riders in pink coats with whips, masters and hounds, etc., are coming back with all the historic pageantry!  This event is scheduled for Saturday, February 20, 2010.  Watch for details in The Pilot, you won’t want to miss seeing the Hunt return to Weymouth!

ARTS & HUMANITIES  by Lois Holt, Chairman

A second season of lectures related to North Carolina’s Extraordinary Coast proved to be an unprecedented success.  Reflecting the audience’s response from the previous year, each of the three lectures given by Kevin Duffus, an award-winning filmmaker, researcher, author, and investigative journalist of historical events, was marked by record attendance. Duffus, the popular favorite from last year’s series, was welcomed back by an enthusiastic following of fans that crowded into the Great Room for each of his fascinating “tall tales.”  Surveys collected after each lecture indicated that the coastal series was highly rated and was truly a milestone.  

This remarkable two-part series was preceded by a series of programs on North Carolina’s rivers.  All were made possible when the North Carolina Humanities Council awarded three consecutive grants to fund the effort.

Credit also must be given to the entire committee and to Sara Lindau for the outstanding job she did with handling publicity for the event. 

Committee member, Deirdre Newton, is currently working on a fundraiser scheduled for Saturday, January 30.  Morgan Sills returns to Weymouth for a second cabaret performance – “Morgan Sings Hammerstein.”  Details about the performance are included in this newsletter.

Looking ahead to next year, Marsha Warren reports that the Paul Green Foundation has approved a $1,000 grant request from the Arts & Humanities Committee for the 2010-2011 season.   The funds awarded will be used for dramatic programming.

The committee will meet again in January to begin outlining plans for the 2010-2011 calendar of events.

                           PALUSTRIS ACTIVITIES at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities:

All of Southern Pines and the surrounding area will be turned into a huge Art Festival, not unlike Spoleto in Charleston, that will be celebrating Visual, Literary and Performing Arts, during the week of March 25-28, 2010, and these are the events that will be taking place at Weymouth.

                                 Tours     Sam Ragan       Hounds            Boyd Play        Oldest tree party     

Mar 25, Thurs         10-1 (free)                                                                                                                                                          

Mar 26, Fri              10-1 (free)                                                                 7:00 ($20)                                                        

Mar 27, Sat               1-3 (free)                                     10-12 ($10)                                        4-5 (free)

Mar 28, Sun              1-3 (free)       3-4:30 (free)

 Descriptions of the events:

Boyd House Tours – various times each day.  45 minute guided tours. free

Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities
Former home of author James Boyd and  his wife Katharine Boyd

Boyd Play – 7pm-10pm, followed by a reception.  Limited to 95 seats in the Great Room, cost $20

“A Thousand Things Time Will Never Let Us Say:

The Correspondence of James and Katharine Boyd and Friends”

Paul Green, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Perkins

History of the Moore County Hounds – 10-noon in the Great Room.  cost $10

Lecture, presented by Joint Master of Foxhounds, Cameron Sadler.

A rare glimpse into the world of the Boyds, along with an opportunity to learn

about the formation of one of the oldest, and most elite hunt clubs in the United States

Oldest Tree Birthday Party – 4-5 in the Great Room and then into the woods.  free

Scott Hartley of  Weymouth Woods, will host a “Birthday Celebration for the Oldest Longleaf  Pine”

and then lead a tour to the oldest tree after the party.

Celebration of Sam Ragan – 3-4:30.  Great Room. free

“Sam Ragan: the Man, His Words”

An interactive and lively staged reading by four voices/readers of Sam Ragan’s poetry

Please call the office, 692-6261, to make reservations for either the Boyd Play, or the History of the Moore Co. Hounds.   Space is limited.