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Live Oak Love Affair An arboreal ode to the monarch of the Southern forest By Nan Graham • Photograph by Andrew Sherman The Druids, those weird ancient Brits, viewed the oak tree as a spiritual [...]

Silent Running Englishman Thomas Taylor’s adventures on the blockade runner Banshee offer a glimpse into the life of a Civil War thrill-seeker By Kevin Maurer    It was a moonless night. Dark, [...]

Becoming the Uncarved Block   Story & Photograph By John Wolfe Artist Nathan Verwey has big plans for the “Art of Our Time” DISCLAIMER Before I get too involved in describing how Nathan [...]

A Winning Collective Largely by word of mouth, a remarkable group of philanthropy-minded women are making things happen one smart grant at a time By Virginia Holman Photographs by Mallory Cash [...]

Between the Covers You can go home again. Ask Gwenyfar Rohler, who has transformed her childhood home into a literary North Carolina-themed bed-and-breakfast By Gwenyfar Rohler • Photographs by [...]

Our Christmas Sing A tradition that measures the years By Margaret Maron   •   Illustrations by Laurel Holden John thought it was probably the Christmas of 1978. Scott said, “No, I think it was [...]

Catalog of Memories No room at the inn for the Wish Book By Tom Allen Say it ain’t so. Not at the most wonderful time of the year. Recently, Sears announced they were closing 142 stores before [...]

The Gift of Grace In the storms of life, she reminds us what it means to be human Story and Photographs by Virginia Holman When our fox-faced, curly-tailed dog Susie passed away at age 16, I told [...]

The Times of His Life With echoes of O. Henry and Mark Twain, Bob Warwick’s stories recall the city he loves and helped shape By Barbara J. Sullivan    Photograph by Andrew Sherman You might be [...]