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A poetic meditation By Jaki Shelton Green I’m never cooking alone, even at my most solitary moments. I am surrounded by generations of cooks, their wisdom, laughter, and their flawed and perfect [...]

In praise of garden benches By Cheryl Capaldo Traylor Illustration by Laurel Holden Every garden needs at least one good bench, a place to pause and rest our world-weary souls, and a spot to [...]

Where poets and nature meet By Gwenyfar Rohler   •   Photographs By Andrew Sherman Some people have Christmas trees. I have “poet-trees.” Literally, poets and poetry hang from the trees in my [...]

Thunder and Lightning Thalian Hall is the proud owner of America’s only operating Thunder Roll, a 19th-century sound effect that originally employed cannonballs running down wooden troughs in the [...]

A pig picking — down-home and dramatic all at the same time. Invite the neighborhood and ice down plenty of beer By Jane Lear When my editor asked me to write about a pig picking — that is, a [...]

Plum Crazy America’s sudden passion for heirloom fruits and vegetables means glorious varieties like Santa Rosa and Mirabelle plums are widely available By Jane Lear One of my earliest food [...]

The Reluctant Pilgrim By Jim Dodson Two decades ago, on the eve of the new millennium, the acclaimed Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake was asked what single change in human behavior could make [...]

By Ash Alder “Every apple orchard is haunted,” a friend recently offered. “Have you ever noticed? All of them. Day or night.” I considered the statement, the labyrinths of gnarled trees echoing [...]

Southern Holy Smoke Matthew Register’s quick rise from roadside to barbecue fame By Wiley Cash   •   Photographs by Mallory Cash For Garland, North Carolina, native Matthew Register, it all [...]

Glowing Results The mission of Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington is to prepare young women to be the first in their families to attend college. The task starts early By Dana Sachs Jahleese [...]