On the heels of the article about the upcoming Epicenter music festival, music is also at the heart of resident Paul Murphy’s story. The Reverend Dr. Paul Greene Murphy’s story is more like an epic novel – one that begins modestly in the small North Carolina town of Oxford where he was born.  His family moved away from the state for a while to South Carolina and ... Read More »

From the land of the River Thames and Buckingham Palace, Jack McClelland, a native Londoner, has traveled far and wide (with golf clubs in tow) to reach his cherished destination in Moore County, the “Home of American Golf”. In contrast, Jack’s wife Melody is a native of Southern Pines, so she has long had a passion for the Sandhills and her love of Southern Pines runs deep.&... Read More »

Torn between the small-town yearnings of her youth in neighboring Richmond County and the up-tempo lifestyle of her collegiate, intern and early career days in North Carolina’s Triangle area, it was only natural that Fallon (McIver) Brewington’s destiny would land her in the ideal spot somewhere in between – Moore County. As the new CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of the Sandh... Read More »

Their story involves growing up in the Midwest, brewing in the backyard, basic training, jumping out of airplanes, and today running a thriving brewery in Southern Pines.  Micah Niebauer and Jason Ginos are the co-founders of Southern Pines Brewing Company and they have a passion for brewing beer. Micah and Jason are also veterans, each having served in the Airborne Special Forces. &... Read More »

Jason and Michelle Howk are no strangers to Moore County, but they never realized that they would retire here.  After Jason’s 15 years of duty as an officer and 14 moves, they consider their move to Pinehurst to be their last because Jason says they have found “a vibrant and intellectually curious community” here.  Jason first became familiar with Moore County while... Read More »

Thinking back, it was more than a dozen years ago now. Neither she nor her husband played golf. They were not an equestrian family. They were nowhere near retirement age. And they planned to have children. “Most people would have thought we were crazy even to consider moving to a ‘retirement community’ in the Sandhills of North Carolina at the time,” Helena Wallin-Mille... Read More »

Ten years ago when Pittsburgh, PA residents Mark and Mary Edwards were looking for a second home, they had narrowed their list of choices down to two possibilities. “When our youngest child was in high school we began looking for a second home in a warmer climate with more sunshine than we were accustomed to seeing in Pittsburgh,” Mark says. “The search came down to two ... Read More »

Jim and Elizabeth Fisher, in their Village of Pinehurst home called Little Hovse [House], are among the many around the Village enjoying the lifestyle initiated by the founding Tufts family.  Little Hovse was built in 1915 by James Andrews, a Quaker Oats executive, and later owned by Bob Tufts, son of James Tufts. Jim and Elizabeth moved here from Muncie, Indiana in 2013.  “It ... Read More »

Dorothy Brower, in her words, is a Southern Pines girl, born here in 1951 in St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital. Although 4 years in college at North Carolina Central University and a career at Durham Technical Community College in Durham took her away from Moore County for a time, “Dot” was eventually able to come back to her Moore roots and finally settle in the area that not ... Read More »

It took only one stay in Moore County for Amie Fraley and her husband Chris to decide that this is where they wanted to live.   “My husband and I moved to Moore County from my hometown near Dayton, Ohio, in 1998 just a year after getting married,” Amie says.  “His brother was working in Southern Pines for Ingersoll-Rand, and he said the town was amazing.  We pl... Read More »