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Features

Santa’s Helpers: Santa of the Long Leaf Pine

Cliff Snider — aka Cliff Kringle — just wants to be the best Santa he can be.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Features

Still Standing

For as long as they’ve stood, barns have been the silent, sturdy witnesses to history and hard work — along with a lot of life and love.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Features

Forever Green

Make your wreath as fancy as you please, but remember: The enduring sign of holiday hospitality is a simple circle.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
History

High Point Market Sees Century-Long Revolution

Furniture design is ever-changing. The same is true of the High Point Market, now in its second century of making history — and expansions.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Columns

The Perfect Sunday

At any age, in any household, the weekly gift of time is treasured.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Central

7 Inches from a Shark at Greensboro Science Center

As if moray eels, mummified humans, and dinosaur skeletons aren’t wildly interesting already, things are about to get a lot wilder and more interesting at the state’s only inland aquarium, zoo, and museum.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Arts & Culture

The Lush Life: An Essay on Being a Yard Person

Observations, confessions, and mild bossiness from a resolute yard person.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Features

Finding Writer’s Solitude at Weymouth Center

How writers find scene and setting in self-imposed solitude.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
State Symbols

In Praise of the Pink Dogwood Flower

Dogwoods’ blushing blooms win the we-try-harder competition in the spring landscape.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
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