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USCGC Diligence departs Wilmington By John Wolfe   •   Photographs by Andrew Sherman It’s a cool gray Memorial Day morning, and the tide is nearly full beneath the big white ship moored at the [...]

Chip on Your Shoulder Listen for the machine-gun call of the feisty chipping sparrow By Susan Campbell Here in North Carolina, we’re lucky to have so many species of sparrows. As a group, [...]

The Road Home Well-traveled trails still hold surprises Story and Photographs by Todd Pusser Unlike much of the rest of Moore County, State Road 1137 has changed very little since the days of my [...]

Girl Gigs When the going gets tough By Susan S. Kelly Like you, I’ve missed a lot of things during the spate of gloom we’ve been living though — truffle fries still sizzling from fry vat grease [...]

Secrets from the Blue Zones Get a running start on a long life By Karen Frye Living to a ripe old age, with clarity of mind and freedom of movement, is what many of the people who live in areas [...]

Goo Gone Okra’s slime problem By Jan Leitschuh Okra has an image problem. During the blast-furnace days of August, tropical okra thrives, throwing off pods with merry abandon, challenging growers [...]

Portrait of “Little Thunder” Sue Monk Kidd imagines the wife of Jesus By D.G. Martin “It could have happened.” My friend was talking about The Book of Longings, the latest novel from Sue Monk [...]

By Ash Alder Always, always everything at once, and in August you can see it. Blackberry and bramble. Rose and thorn.  Honey and hive. The sweetness and the sting. You cannot have one without the [...]

In the Sweet By and By Until then, the dance of life continues By Jim Dodson The Great Pandemic Summer of 2020 is drawing to a close. How have you coped? As you read this, I am coping by being [...]

The World of Del Maguey Mezcal so good, I forgot how to count By Tony Cross Back in June, I was invited to dinner and a mezcal tasting by my good friends Bo and Suze. I first met the couple six [...]