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Watermelon — it’s a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. — Enrico Caruso   July is the great melon harvest, a bellyful of sweetness, the mother lode of summer. In the [...]

Beach Dreams Catching a wave and a sno-cone By Bill Fields The town where I have lived for a long time has lovely public beaches on Long Island Sound. I’m grateful to get a sticker for my car [...]

July Books FICTION The Ruins, by Phoebe Wynne If you are in need of a riveting Gothic novel set on the dazzling French coast, this is your next read. A group of abhorrent, self-absorbed British [...]

Former major leaguer manages new team By Jim Moriarty   •   Photographs by John Gessner Near the end of the baseball classic Bull Durham, strong-armed Nuke LaLoosh goes looking for his catcher, [...]

“The Cocktail Cat” The spirit of a roaming feline By Jim Dodson I have a friend who never fails to show up at cocktail time. Wherever he’s been, whatever he’s been up to all day, he appears like [...]

Rare Bird Alert Keep an eye out for the roseate spoonbill By Susan Campbell With its bright pink body, the roseate spoonbill is certainly the most distinctive and garishly colored bird in North [...]

The Sunfish Too small to keep. Too big to forget. By Ashley Walshe This isn’t a big fish story. Quite the opposite, actually. And it starts right here on Lake James, the massive hundred-year-old [...]

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) If ever you’ve ridden a drop tower — one of those gut-in-your-throat “free fall” rides at the carnival — then you can imagine what it feels like to know and love a [...]

Rum, Anyone? Three styles to pique your curiosity By Tony Cross I love rum. On its own; stirred in Ti’ Punch; shaken ice-cold in a daiquiri; in a box; with a fox. I love rum. This probably comes [...]

Cookout classics with a twist Story & Photographs by Rose Shewey Contrary to popular belief, grilling is not just for meat lovers. Whether you grill a juicy burger or mushroom caps, the [...]