The Gregg Museum of Art & Design expansion project on the NC State campus has moved into a new phase after a years-long effort to raise millions of dollars in private funding. The university museum’s new home, located in the former chancellor’s residence on Hillsborough Street near the Memorial Belltower, is being renovated with a new gallery space of 15,000 [...]
The High Point Market Authority (HPMA) has released the High Point Market Style Report, for Spring/Summer 2015, a 36-page report developed by eight home fashion gurus who are part of the HPMA’s 2015 Style Spotters team. The team scoured the Spring High Point Market (April 18-23) for the hottest must-have items and then translated their picks into the latest top [...]
By Linda Catoe Dr. Marlene McCauley, Guilford College Geology Chair When Dr. Marlene McCauley, Guilford College Geology Chair, pulls the cork on a new semester, she swirls her signature glass of wry humor, insisting, “We will be conducting comparative olfactory evaluations…and not tasting wine.” The wine course homework does include wine tasting at local wine shops, creating your own tastings, [...]
By Grant Emrick Grant and Lynn Emrick “Me, retire? What wilI I do with myself?” Grant Emrick asked his wife during a retirement party on his 75th birthday. Several months later, he “unretired” to spend a year with Lynn in Haiti working on the financial records of an American-supported hospital. While in Haiti, they decided to settle in Winston-Salem. They [...]
Five pots of herbs… sage, thyme, rosemary, oregano, and basil… thrive in Mary Ann Guinn’s garden, the rewards of a recent trip to the annual Herb Festival at The Vineyards of Swan Creek in the Yadkin Valley. The Vineyards of Swan Creek held their annual Herb Festival the first weekend in May. With the purchase of a $25 ticket for two, [...]
The dramatic rise of golf’s star has brought a blossoming of a new lifestyle in the last 20 years: golf and real estate. Baby Boomers have it figured out. Why buy a house near a golf course when you can live on the course with a golf game outside the front door; however, it’s a relatively new phenomenon. Grande Dunes [...]
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up By Marie KondoTen Speed Press (Penguin Random House) or Amazon.com Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess? Then this is the book for you. Marie Kondo, Japanese cleaning consultant, has taken tidying up to a whole new level in her [...]
Mary Ann & Brian Guinn are enjoyinga glass of wine at Sanders Ridge Vineyards. The Sixth Annual Yadkin Winter Reds wine event offered two weekends of wonderful wine and food in Yadkin County. It was a great opportunity to visit Yadkin County wineries and taste the variety of wines they produce. Brian and I attended the first weekend of the [...]
“Calabash” Not long ago it was a name attached to a collection of seafood restaurants, where people would drive several hours just to dine on the best fried seafood in the land. Today it has become a peaceful enclave of homes, villas and condos, representing some of the best real estate values along the Grand Strand. Peaceful and family-oriented, it [...]
The Grand Strand offers many worlds besides the glitz and glamour of Myrtle Beach. There is Pawleys Island, probably the country’s oldest beach retreat. In the 1700s, it was a summer paradise for river planters seeking cool sea breezes. Today it is still a paradise for those who like the “laid back” pace of Pawleys life. With the Atlantic on [...]
