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Digging Into Spring And striking pay dirt By Brian Faulkner Illustration by Harry Blair   I’ve decided that, way back when, somebody got it wrong. Christmas should be in the spring. There’s [...]

Birdhouses for Our Souls For us and our feathered friends, avian dwellings represent the hope of spring By Noah Salt   But of course, everyone knows a birdhouse is much more than that. These [...]

A Builder for the Ages The iconic buildings of architect Charles C. Hartmann By Billy Ingram   In 1918, Charles Conrad Hartmann was a 29-year-old journeyman architect under the employ of [...]

All I Really Need to Know Simple and profound lessons from the work of Louis Voorhees By Peter Freeman     Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for [...]

A preview of a tour of gardens presented by the Garden Club Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County By Jim Dodson     According to one old saw, there’s always something new to see [...]

Greensboro artist Carol Cole finds nurturing through art and home By Maria Johnson Photographs by John Gessner   Wearing a halo of gray curls, which radiates her considerable energy, Carol [...]

Remembering High Point design icon Pat Plaxico By Cynthia Adams I met Patricia Lynn “Pat” Plaxico at the height of her professional fame in the late 1980s at a log cabin in Colfax, one owned by [...]

On a hot day last June, Buddy Glasscoe stood on the porch of his Lewisville home, greeting a stream of visitors, some from as far away as Raleigh and Charlotte, who filed through his brand-new [...]

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.           — Anne Lamott

Love on the Half Shell The subtle saltwater complexity of oysters provokes an elemental hunger. And there’s no wrong way to eat them By Jane Lear For most folks, their first oyster is a rite of [...]