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A Saddened Spring “Where have all the flowers gone?” By Deborah Salomon April means spring and spring means happy times, right? Nature slips into renewal mode. Off go the sweatpants, on go the [...]

Man of the Earth According to acclaimed plantsman Tony Avent, the universe has plans for you — and your garden By Wiley Cash   •   Photographs by Mallory Cash For someone who has spent much of [...]

From Our House Behind the Churchyard, After a Storm An hour after the storm, tree limbs still sway, their green-leafed twigs moving like the limbs of swimmers in a sapphire sea. Thunder booms in [...]

Life in the Slow Lanes In praise of the snail’s pace By Jim Dodson The TED Radio Hour recently hosted a fascinating program devoted to the art of slowing down. The program began with a public TV [...]

Classic lamps on display at Reynolda House By Jim Moriarty Due to health precautions related to COVID-19, the Reynolda House Museum of American Art closed temporarily in March and the opening of [...]

Quail Trail In search of the elusive northern bobwhite By Susan Campbell For some of those fortunate enough to have lived near open piney woods or adjacent to large farm fields, the iconic call [...]

Creature Discomfort Not all pets are created equal By Bill Fields Among the sounds of a North Carolina childhood that linger many years later and hundreds of miles from where I heard them: [...]

Mountain Men One exceptional life in politics, another in music By D.G. Martin In 58-5, two North Carolina mountain boys graduated from local high schools, made their ways to college, and then [...]

Yoga to the Rescue Helping yourself to age gracefully By Karen Frye The lights are soft, and the room is warm. Everyone is quietly lying on their yoga mat. The teacher enters the room and [...]

Straight Talk Finding fault in the stars is for April Fools By Astrid Stellanova Excuse me, Star Children, but not everyone has been behaving. Allow me to draw you a map of your thoughts, which [...]