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Living in North Carolina

In Search of Secret Creeks

Stocked with paper maps and picnic lunches, one family’s minivan becomes a time machine, carrying them across North Carolina and back to a simpler era.

by Drew Perry
Features

Salad Days

Growing young gardeners is a lot like tending seeds: Both need plenty of dirt and sunshine, a little patience, and a lot of love.

by Drew Perry
Features

Toad & Wee: Building Memories

A quest to understand how boards and blocks become tables and chairs leads a pair of young woodworkers to a furniture factory in Burlington.

by Drew Perry
Features

Toad & Wee: Scruffy Duffers

On a short course at Pinehurst Resort, a pair of putter boys learn the finer points of teeing up, playing through, and celebrating a good drive (quietly).

by Drew Perry
Columns

Toad & Wee: Another World

For beachgoers big and small, a trip to Jockey’s Ridge — the largest natural sand dune system on the East Coast — is like visiting a different planet.

by Drew Perry
Living in North Carolina

Heirloom Earth

Letting kids discover what’s just over the horizon requires trust and faith, and yields the stewards of tomorrow.

by Drew Perry
Features

Toad & Wee: Strike It Rich

Young prospectors head to Hiddenite hoping for gemstones. Yet the most priceless nugget they uncover may be the lesson that value is in the eye of the beholder.

by Drew Perry

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