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Cadillac Joe While some of his dogwoods are long gone, the legend lives on By Jim Dodson As spring broke this year, I had a startling realization. I may be turning into Cadillac Joe. His real [...]

The Next Adventure And the gift of mentoring By Tom Bryant “The only thing crazier than a duck hunter or a mountain climber,” the Old Man repeatedly said, “is a really dedicated fisherman — a man [...]

The Pinch Hitters Now you see them, now you don’t By Jim Moriarty The year was 1959. I know this because my father, who was largely estranged from our family, took me to see the sensational new [...]

Heart of a Poet Time, place and eternity meet in Indigo Field By Stephen E. Smith On this sunny late-March afternoon, Marjorie Hudson occupies rarefied space: She’s standing in the footprints of [...]

The Queen Is Dead, Long live the king! By Tony Rothwell Sounds harsh doesn’t it? But that’s the way it’s been for a thousand years. As London, and much of the world, prepares for another large [...]

May is the nimble bard, back again, rendering tales of romance and revelry. When the peonies sing out and the black snake sheds his winter skin, the bard slinks in with an age-old poem, jubilant [...]

Mallard Ducks It is late afternoon and a pair of mallard ducks is paddling the length and breadth of Lake Katharine, their webbed feet working beneath the waterline. The male’s hunter green head [...]

Revitalizing West Southern Pines By Ann Petersen Feature Photo caption: West Southern Pines Rosenwald School, 1925 Blanchie Carter Discovery Park today Photograph by John gessner The land tells [...]

Beads on a String Silver Alert with Lee Smith By Wiley Cash Photographs By Mallory Cash     Silver Alert is Lee Smith’s 15th novel, and, if you believe her, it’ll probably be her last. How can [...]

Reimagining the Rassie Wicker Cottage By Deborah Salomon Photographs by John Gessner     Should the spirit of Rassie Wicker return to his modest Pinehurst cottage, finding pipe and slippers — let [...]