April PineStraw

A free-spirited and romantic escape By Claudia Watson   •   Photographs by John Gessner The light snow clinging to the winter-into-spring camellias prompted her early morning call last March. [...]

April is the earliest fawn, dewy eyed and trembling, landing in a world so soft and tender you can barely remember the deep silence, the bleak landscape, the icy ache of winter. The nectar of [...]

And a dancing bear Fiction by Tony Rothwell Ever since Sir Richard’s untimely death from a sudden stroke there had been an increasing number of enquiries of Lady Fiona as to how she was bearing [...]

Pinehurst’s Fownes Family left an enduring legacy in golf By Bill Case When Bill Fownes faced George Dunlap Jr. on Dec. 31, 1929, in the final match of Pinehurst’s Mid-Winter Tournament, he was a [...]

Beige Wall Telephone, 1960s Beige Wall Telephone, 1960s To you who have never known what it is to be tethered      to the family’s one phone by a corkscrew cord           filthied by idle fingers [...]

Return of the Native Speaking fluent mid-century modernism By Deborah Salomon   •   Photographs by John Gessner What’s in a name? Grandfathered by the Arts and Crafts movement, championed by [...]