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Southern Pines is known far and wide as a “horsey town,” but it is never more so than during the Painted Ponies Art Walk.

The Carolina Horse Park Foundation’s annual Painted Ponies Art Walk will bring artistic representations of local culture to downtown Southern Pines for the third year.

They don’t eat anything, no fenced pastures are necessary — and they’re completely weatherproof. Downtown shoppers and joggers are already well-acquainted with the Painted Ponies who have graced Broad Street for the last two months. Local artists have poured their creative talents into each of the life-size fiberglass horse sculptures, which represent an array of local traditions from the literary and golfing to the patriotic. They’ll be sold on Saturday in a live auction to benefit the Carolina Horse Park Foundation. The Carolina Horse Park is a 315-acre, nationally-recog...

Donald Ross, Peggy Kirk Bell and Payne Stewart will soon grace Broad Street in downtown Southern Pines. Their portraits, carefully painted on the side of a life-size horse sculpture, are part of the 2021 Painted Ponies Art Walk set to begin this coming week. “It’s been a fun challenge,” said Dan Dreyer who was commissioned by the local Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) for the work titled, appropriately, “Home of American Golf.” When he’s not painting, Dreyer works as a fulltime “destination storyteller” and videographer for the CVB, promoting tourism ...

December 25, 2020 250 Today is Saturday, Dec. 26, the 361st day of 2020. There are five days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 26, 2004, more than 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a 100-foot-high tsunami triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean. On this date: In 1776, British forces suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. In 1799, former President George Washington was eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” In 1908,...