When to fly – Travel on off-peak days (Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday) and at off-peak times for lower fares, a less crowded cabin and a better chance of snagging an elusive mileage-award seat. Taking a long weekend? Fly Thursday – Sunday, Friday through Monday or best of all, Saturday – Tuesday. Air-travel booking sites (Expedia and Travelocity) may seem all [...]
A gnarly old vine on Roanoke Island is the Mother Vine of our nation’s first cultivated wine grape. First recorded in 1584 by Sir Walter Raleigh’s explorers, today the vine is a trunk two feet thick with tendrils stretching on wooden arbors across an acre of land. It was the beginning of wine in America. Before the Civil War, there [...]
Mary Ann & Brian Guinn Mary Ann and Brian Guinn like to travel and have eight weeks of timeshares, but they choose to live in Greensboro because of its central location between the mountains and the beach. In recent years their weekend excursions have been devoted to visiting North Carolina’s 120 plus wineries, most of them near the Triad. Mary [...]
By J. Sloan Manning, MD J. Sloan Manning, MD, a family physician, is medical director of Novant Health PrimeCare. To view PrimeCare locations in the Triad, visit www.yourcareconnections.org. It was a long, hard winter, but now that summer is in full swing, families across the Triad are spending more time outdoors. With the increased activity level, now is a good [...]
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” — Socrates Seniors used to dream of retiring to a mountaintop aerie or beach bungalow, usually near a golf course. It’s a different retirement today as many are seeking to spend their later years in a college or university town, a trend the Wall Street Journal noted [...]
Hundreds of seniors participate in the Seniors Games. Randy Surratt spurts ahead in High Point Senior Games’ 1500M run. Jeannie Pegram concentrates on billiards. Christine Headen smiles.(She just made a strike.) Golden Girls – Dot Sowerby, left and Terry Hamilton, two of Greensboro’s golden girls, recently captured silver medals at the National Senior Games in Cleveland. Dot Sowerby, 80, finished [...]
Why has there been so much controversy over the question of Shakespearean authorship over the last two centuries? It’s because the more that has been discovered about William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, the less he seems to fit the measure of the author revealed to us in his plays and poetry. As a result, more and more people have begun to [...]
The Bookman’s TaleA Novel of ObsessionBy: Charles Lovett Available in paperback in May What could be better than art history, interwoven with literary history, coupled with the mystery of Shakespeare’s true identity? This enticing combination may be one reason The Bookman’s Tale by Winston-Salem’s Charles Lovett has created such a stir in the book world. It contains all of the [...]
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” — Socrates Seniors used to dream of retiring to a mountaintop aerie or beach bungalow, usually near a golf course. It’s a different retirement today as many are seeking to spend their later years in a college or university town, a trend the Wall Street Journal noted [...]
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” — Socrates Seniors used to dream of retiring to a mountaintop aerie or beach bungalow, usually near a golf course. It’s a different retirement today as many are seeking to spend their later years in a college or university town, a trend the Wall Street Journal noted [...]
