October 2021

A Perfect Unmatch Historic cottage exudes comfort, harmony By Deborah Salomon   •   Photographs by John Gessner Just because “big” and “beautiful” start with the same letter doesn’t signify a [...]

Libra (September 23 – October 22) When a Libra hangs the moon, they don’t care if you notice. They just want you to take note of how perfectly it’s situated in the night sky — how it’s never [...]

A football odyssey for a father and his sons By Charles Marshall   •   Photographs by Joshua Stedman Growing up in North Carolina, my life unfolded along a well-worn path of I-85 between Atlanta [...]

Produced by Brady Gallagher   •   Photographs by William McDermott Schitt’s Creek Mark Hawkins as Johnny Rose Mark is a master craftsman who has been designing fine jewelry and restoring your [...]

Raising the roof and bringing down the house By Bland Simpson   •   Photograph by Tim Sayer Stephen Smith — teacher, journalist, poet, and the witty and imaginative inventor of the Bushnell Hamp [...]

Weddings and Wit Learning about love on a deadline By Anne Blythe If you’re someone who likes to soak in every detail from The New York Times Vows section — and even if you’re not — Cate Doty [...]

October Books FICTION The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles In Nebraska during the summer of 1954, 18-year-old Emmett is released from his sentence on a work farm to retrieve his 8-year-old brother [...]

On a Wig and a Prayer By Jim Moriarty When the occasion warrants, I’ve been known to dress in women’s clothes. I’m not going to blame genetics entirely for this but it’s an established fact that [...]

A Loop of My Own When lightning strikes twice By Lee Pace I’ve hit many thousands of golf shots over more than four decades, and through early July 2021 two of my favorites had come at Forest [...]

Those with “the Sight” claim there are wee folk among us. Do you believe? By John Hood   •   Illustration by Harry Blair That rock in the river was a big one. Big enough to sit on. That’s what [...]