A Garden in Winter During the Sabbath of seasons, plants are napping while gardeners are planning By Noah Salt At lunch with a gardening friend not long ago, she bemoaned the end of the [...]
Getting the Boot The dirty origins of “boot room/mudroom” By Noah Salt • Illustration by Romey Petite Not long ago, recalling a rainy but delightful winter fortnight in the Surrey [...]
Pining for Christmas In search of the perfect evergreen By Nancy Oakley • Photographs by Amy Freeman Where to start? With garlands of gold stars? Or the heavy wooden nutcracker and assorted [...]
Pot Luck On a cold winter’s night, wrap your hands around a bowl of a hearty stew, a go-to sustenance of the South for centuries By Jane Lear • Illustration by Laurel Holden A stew, [...]
Tunnel Vision Revisiting High Point’s racing past By Peter Freeman The Freeman clan is known to wax enthusiastically over family tales and encounters, especially when my Uncle George is [...]
A blaze on the patio brings folks together and takes the edge off winter’s chill By Noah Salt • Photographs by Amy Freeman The poet Robert Frost famously wondered whether the world would end [...]
Meet the other — and otherworldly — Adams family, namesake of High Point’s Historic Adams Inn By Cynthia Adams Photographs by Amy Freeman Part Christmas story, part ghost story, this tale [...]
Penny and Bill Spry’s empty nest atop the iconic Reynolds Building in downtown Winston-Salem rekindles a newlywed passion By Jim Dodson • Photographs by Amy Freeman “I was worried that Bill [...]