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. [...]
April is the earliest fawn, dewy eyed and trembling, landing in a world so soft and tender you can barely remember the deep silence, the bleak landscape, the icy ache of winter. The nectar of [...]
And a dancing bear Fiction by Tony Rothwell Ever since Sir Richard’s untimely death from a sudden stroke there had been an increasing number of enquiries of Lady Fiona as to how she was bearing [...]
Pinehurst’s Fownes Family left an enduring legacy in golf By Bill Case When Bill Fownes faced George Dunlap Jr. on Dec. 31, 1929, in the final match of Pinehurst’s Mid-Winter Tournament, he was a [...]
Beige Wall Telephone, 1960s Beige Wall Telephone, 1960s To you who have never known what it is to be tethered to the family’s one phone by a corkscrew cord filthied by idle fingers [...]
Return of the Native Speaking fluent mid-century modernism By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner What’s in a name? Grandfathered by the Arts and Crafts movement, championed by [...]
Three options at one address By Deborah Salomon • Photography by John Gessner Houses can be 3-D textbooks chronicling history or sociology. The first cottages built by the Tufts family were [...]
We arranged to meet inside the Welcome Center on the north side of the train station in Southern Pines. “I’ll be the guy with the red scarf,” I said. “I’ll be the guy with the camera,” Joseph [...]
Photographs by John Gessner and Mackenzie Francisco Back in the saddle again The wild mustangs of the Outer Banks have nothing on us now that the painted ponies have returned to the streets of [...]
Pairing Mantids He has only one job to do. And she, with her hunger, her need to feed the future without him by consuming him, has a lot to get done before winter. His head tilts slightly, like a [...]
