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A special family of fox squirrels Story and Photographs by Todd Pusser Dappled sunlight, filtered through a canopy of tall trees, danced across clumps of golden-hued wiregrass. The wind was [...]

In the fast lane at Slow Farm By Claudia Watson A chain saw-wielding woman wearing bold red lipstick might be the last thing you’d expect to see on a farm, but at Slow Farm, the untraditional is [...]

Let’s Be Perfectly Clear Juice porn for nerds By Tony Cross Six years ago, I purchased the book Liquid Intelligence, by Dave Arnold. When it arrived in the mail, I remember thumbing through the [...]

Fine Young Cannibals Beware the stealthy Cooper’s Hawk By Susan Campbell To some, a hawk is a hawk. Yet here in the Piedmont and Sandhills of North Carolina, we have 10 different species of these [...]

Beautiful Places, Beautiful Faces The Sandhills Photography Club and the Artists League of the Sandhills will hold an opening reception on Friday, Sept. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. for its show “Travels [...]

In Tune with the Pandemic When tuning my acoustic guitar, the oxidized strings having gone flat in the warm humid air, the wire being wound to perfect tension sometimes releases an almost [...]

Rosewood in Bloom Gatsby-era retreat honors the old, celebrates the new By Deborah Salomon   •   Photographs by John Gessner The probable scenario: By the mid-1920s, Southern Pines rivaled [...]

Deep Thoughts A mind is a terrible thing to waste By Lee Pace I have a game Saturday morning with the regular guys. Shoes shined, clubs buffed, sunscreen in the bag. Now to work on my swing and [...]

Relevance Is Relative Put that in your pipe and smoke it By Susan S. Kelly If nothing else, these times have taught us that every 15 minutes everything changes: statistics, rules of (social) [...]

Fields of Dreams Remembering conversations with old friends By Tom Bryant I backed the old Bronco out of her resting place in the garage and loaded it with my hunting paraphernalia. The gear for [...]