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Weeks ago, before what felt like endless days of rain, two flats of tomato plants mysteriously landed on your porch (how’d they get there?), and so you planted them deep in the sunniest patches [...]

Jordan (Golf) Rules The Last Dance on the first tee By Lee Pace Lew Ferguson opened the golf shop at Pinehurst No. 7 early one morning in June 1990 and exchanged pleasantries with the day’s first [...]

Not just another roadside attraction By John Wolfe   •   Photographs by Andrew Sherman There is a man in Columbus County who creates dinosaurs in his backyard. He also builds bulldogs, painting [...]

TRUST BUT VERIFY: As our communities deal with the challenges presented by the novel coronavirus, please be aware that events may have been postponed, rescheduled or existed only in our dreams. [...]

Beach Daze When only O.D. and The Pad would do By Tom Bryant I grew up in the ’s, and I believe the lifestyles during those wonderful times will never be seen again. World War II was over, with [...]

In the Mix Pierre Ferrand 1840 shines By Tony Cross My introduction to cognac happened in the late summer of 2003. I had my first “front of the house” job at an intimate, independent French [...]

Going Viral Shedding light on dark days By Stephen E. Smith In the mid-’s, Richard Preston’s nonfiction The Hot Zone was a bestseller. Based on a 1989 outbreak of an Ebola-like strain of virus in [...]

Whole in One Everything a golfing family needs under one roof By Deborah Salomon   •   Photographs by John Gessner Color this scene serene. Jana Van Paris, a lovely blonde wearing white pants, [...]

July Books FICTION Utopia Avenue, by David Mitchell Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer [...]

Knives Out The artisan of Aberdeen By Jenna Biter “I’m more of a Japanese maple freak than a bonsai freak, but I can show you,” Joe Marotta says matter-of-factly but somehow merrily, too. He [...]