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Gram “R” Us From hymns to Chips Ahoy By Renee Whitmore “I’m going to do some warsh. Do you need anything warshed?” Gram asked as she carried the laundry basket full of dirty clothes through the [...]

My Wife’s Secret Life And why I’m happily married, blissfully in the dark By Jim Dodson I recently discovered that my wife, Wendy, enjoys a secret life. Actually, I’ve known about it for years. I [...]

Return of the Shaw House The Moore County Historical Association’s Shaw House grounds and properties will reopen for tours beginning Thursday, April 8, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The gift shop [...]

Thriller Triumph An evil character spices a Carolina plot By D.G. Martin Do you remember Hannibal Lecter, the psychotic doctor played by Anthony Hopkins in the film The Silence of the Lambs? [...]

Elbow Grease Because the heart wants what the heart wants By Cynthia Adams Closing our eyes to our termite-riddled garage and a looming bathroom tear-out, we snuggled down by the telly, cuddling [...]

Map Mysteries Navigating the old-fashioned way By Bill Fields On a Golf World assignment in Nebraska in 2013, I procured something for the first time in many years. Not bubble gum, a baseball [...]

Ruby Ready Ladies and gentlemen, start your feeders By Susan Campbell It’s that time, folks! North Carolina’s smallest bird, those winged jewels that have spent the winter in the tropics, are now [...]

The Ross That Wasn’t The lost links of James Barber By Lee Pace By the late 1920s, Donald Ross had designed seven golf courses in the Sandhills. There were Nos. 1-4 at Pinehurst Country Club, [...]

The First Time I Saw Paris A young man’s trip of a lifetime By Tom Allen April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom Holiday tables under the trees April in Paris, this is the feeling No one can ever [...]

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. [...]