From the Publisher: Do You Have the Guts to Gut?

Anyone who has remained at home during an extensive renovation is part of…
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Ex Libris: Born to Run

“The best runner leaves no tracks.” — Tao Te Ching Running is the…
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Mint to Be

Mint juleps, peppermint ice cream, sweet mint tea, grasshopper pie, and Thin Mints…
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Flying High

Before he parachuted over volcanoes, jet-setted around the world, and traveled to the…
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You Name It

Juliet’s declaration that “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”…
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Portrait of a Pear

Pomaria Nursery, one of the most influential and prestigious American nurseries in the…
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Barefootin’ It

For several years during my boyhood, from the time of my earliest memories…
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Hat Happy

A Hat History The Kentucky Derby, starting out of the gate this year…
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Hidden & Hurtful

In a stereotypical scene, elderly men sitting on their porch rockers are complaining…
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The House that Frank Built

The 12,000-plus seat Carolina Coliseum opened in November 1968 with the expectation that…
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Elevating Columbia

When the new Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Aquarium & Reptile Conservation…
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Italian Nobility

One Columbia couple knows better than most how events of the past can…
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