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Three of a Kind Keeping Pinehurst in good hands By Lee Pace Photographs by John Gessner             Think of it: Trump Pinehurst. JW Marriott Pinehurst Resort. Omni Pinehurst. Imagine checking [...]

Letter to Charlotte By LuEllen Huntley She’s cute the last time we shop for groceries, wearing pressed jeans with a sparkle button jean jacket, exactly hemmed. Hair washed, set and combed the way [...]

An Inconvenient Truth Join David Joy as he discusses Those We Thought We Knew, his compelling new novel of a community whose dark underbelly is suddenly revealed, on Friday, Aug. 4, at The [...]

In celebration of one of life’s perfect pairings — a beach and a book — PineStraw has produced its summer reading issue every August for over a decade. In that span our contributors have included [...]

Fiction by Valerie Nieman Illustration by Jenn Hales Andi hadn’t been startled awake for several nights, ever since the contractor fixed that foundation problem, but now she sat straight up in [...]

Fiction by Brendan Slocumb   •   Illustration by Mariano Santillan He smelled like the cake factory: frosting, the yeasty stench of batter and butter, but more than anything else, sugar. Baked [...]

Something in the Water Diving with sand tiger sharks off the North Carolina coast Story and Photographs by Todd Pusser For nearly five minutes, I have been hovering motionlessly off the bow of [...]

Heavy Mettle Three mothers of tenacity appear in a debut novel By Anne Blythe Mother’s Day has come and gone this year, but Sara Johnson Allen’s Down Here We Come Up offers a unique and [...]

Creating a little jewel box By Deborah Salomon Photographs by John Gessner     Homes fall into categories: fixer-upper, starter, family, dream, downsized, retirement. In the 20-some years Mike [...]

August slows us down. Speeds us up. Goes by a host of honest names. Call it “Epoch of Purple Coneflowers” or “Dawn of the Swamp Rose Mallow” or “Rudbeckia in C Major.” In the garden, call it [...]