Several years ago I published a column entitled “Having a Drink with Gus,” written after I had spent a few hours in a Manhattan bar which had once been the Craftsman Building, a grand showroom for Gustav Stickley’s Arts…
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Like many of you, here in Western North Carolina we have had to learn to share our backyards and gardens with whitetail deer. More recently, as our urban sprawl has invaded their natural habitat, we have also experienced a growing number…
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We’ve all known since high school that drinking and driving don’t mix, but now we need to add antiques to that formula.
A few weeks ago, an inebriated guest at the Omni Grove Park Inn swerved off course and collided with…
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Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way we had planned.
At least not the first time.
Last year one of my stay-at-home Covid projects was building a three-foot tall concrete block wall separating Leigh Ann’s…
This article is a republication and has been edited to include archived images of the author's father and family. Original date of publication: May 27th, 2012.
There will be hundreds of columns written this week on the meaning of Memorial…
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Trust me, I never intended to build it myself.
A sudden spring flood had deposited three inches of sandy silt on our three existing pastures, effectively choking out the young grass Leigh Ann’s horses depend on during the…
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