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Songs of Home The Steep Canyon Rangers celebrate the music of the Old North State   By Wiley Cash   •   Photographs by Mallory Cash What do you do after spending several weeks playing [...]

Feeling Your Goats Everyone will experience the Capricorn Effect in 2020   By Astrid Stellanova Eat your peas and collards, Star Children. Tradition will matter. Soften your hearts and [...]

For the Gate City, the ’20s are set to roar By Margaret Moffett Midsummer, like clockwork, it begins — the rat-a-tat-tats and oompahs and wah-wha-whas  floating across east Greensboro, teasing [...]

A Backward Glance A look back at 2019’s favorite books from our favorite bookseller   Compiled by Brian Lampkin Let’s take a column and look back at 2019 before we return to our regularly [...]

Celebrating 36 years of life, the Greensboro Scottish Dance Society keeps ancient traditions alive — while “flying” into the future By Jim Dodson   •   Photographs by Bert VanderVeen Fittingly, [...]

Please, Don’t go But Mama knew best   By Cynthia Adams When a comedian once quipped that his mother was a one-way travel agent for guilt trips, I laughed.  Hard. Too hard. And wiped helpless [...]

For the Time Being To count the hours . . . or make them count   By Jim Dodson My office over the garage, which I fondly call the “Tree House,” is a place where time stands still, in a [...]

The Unforgiving Arctic Story of the perilous Lady Franklin Bay Expedition   By Stephen E. Smith In July 1881, the USS Proteus set sail from Newfoundland for Lady Franklin Bay in the Canadian [...]

Musings on Fitness Do I dare to eat a peach?   – T.S. Eliot Calculating carbs and calories, logging laps in the pool, miles on the bike, my walks in the woods. Examining family photos, [...]