March 2017

The Rise of Roussillon Where red wine is roi By Robyn James Roussillon has been the redheaded stepchild of the French wine country for many years, a fact that is slowly changing due to the [...]

Every Wednesday morning at Tex & Shirley’s, fellowship and photography are served over easy By Jim Dodson On a drizzly late winter morning, a lively buzz of voices flows from the rear dining [...]

Things Old Photo Specialists lost — and found — in the fire By Billy Ingram   •   Photographs by John Gessner   Just as the bottom was falling out of the commercial photography business, Bill [...]

Harbinger of Spring The blue-gray gnatcatcher heralds the seasonal migration in Central N.C. By Susan Campbell It wonít be much longer . . . the wheezy calls from blue-gray gnatcatchers will soon [...]

Echoes of the past in a College Hill treasure By Nancy Oakley   •   Photographs By Amy Freeman The past, as William Faulkner once famously wrote, “is never dead. It’s not even past.” And no one [...]

Waggin’ Train Crazy for canines? Then grab the kiddies and — heh — paws to check out UNCG’s North Carolina Theater for Young People’s production of Go, Dog, Go! March 21–26 at Taylor [...]

Trail of Tears The sorrowful history of Western expansion By Stephen E. Smith During the early-to mid-19th century, an unknown Native American warrior documented his life in pictographs on a [...]

A Sorry Yardstick Regrets? I’ve had a few . . . By Susan Kelly Say what you want about the Golden Rule and its cousin, WWJD; file away Ann Landers’ famous chestnut, “Are you better off with or [...]

Sunday Man ’twixt Heaven and Earth By Jim Dodson Itís Sunday morning in the kitchen, two hours before the sunrise. A welcome silence fills the house, and at this hour I often hear a still, small [...]

The largest and most fiercely contested battle of the Revolutionary War’s Southern Campaign was fought in the small North Carolina hamlet of Guilford Courthouse. Almost 4,500 American militia and [...]