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Rain Man And the stuff that deferred dreams are made of By Nancy Oakley   The handle of the snow shovel had rubbed blisters on my thumbs as I stood in ankle-deep water, bailing gallons from [...]

The Art of the Tart America’s melting pot gave us melt-in- your-mouth apple pie By Noah Salt     Every year, as surely as leaves fall and the temperatures drop, my wife the baker goes [...]

A Touch of Hollywood A Contemporary Gem in New Sherwood Forest By Noah Salt   Every now and then we come across a house that leaves us politely gobsmacked in the best sense of the word. Such [...]

A Family Affair In the vineyards of rural  Stokes County, the family Younts helps grow the future By Peter and Amy Freeman   Regular phone calls to coworkers during the turmoil of Covid [...]

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.” – George Eliot

A Pretty Face Label maker Wright of Thomasville creates magic outside the bottle By Cynthia Adams   Sometimes it’s a mere 3 x 3 inches, sometimes a fraction more on the wine bottle. [...]

Bloom Where You Are Planted High Point designers Allen and James grow their business with plants By Jennifer Bringle   High Point interior designers Patti Allen and Stephanie James of Allen [...]

Primi Piatti North Carolina—based Vietri celebrates the Italian lifestyle By Tracy Bulla Above Photo: Vietri expands its Pumpkins Collection with new additions drawing inspiration from a walk [...]

Days of wine and song   “This is a great latitude for growing grapes, the same as South Sonoma,” says Max Lloyd, owner of Grove Winery & Vineyards near Gibsonville. The former high-tech [...]

Native Intelligence Indigenous plants keep a garden healthy — and beautiful By Cheryl Capaldo Traylor   Native plants are an important part of a healthy ecosystem, but can they also be [...]