When Annie Oakley Came to Pinehurst – Garden & Gun
photo: courtesy of the Tufts Archives, Pinehurst, NC Annie Oakley and her birddog, Dave, who would sniff out money from Pinehurst exhibition spectators to be donated to the Red Cross. “There’s a famous lady who lived here and her name was Phoebe Moses,” Marva Kirk says on her Pinehurst, North Carolina, history tours. “Have you ever heard of her?” More often than not, the answer is “no,” but when Kirk tells the visitors that Moses’s stage name was Annie Oakley, the world-famous sharpshooter, eyes inevitably brighten with recognition. “Most people are surprised she lived here...
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