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The First Cool Morning on the Water
One September morning you step onto the dock and the air has changed. The water knows before the calendar does. Summer has turned.
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The Lighthouses of the South, Part Three: The Screw-Pile Lights of the Sounds
The last leg of our lighthouse journey, into the quiet sounds where a stranger light once stood: a little house on iron screws over the water.
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The Best Southern Thing We Saw This Week: Friday Night Lights
A small-town high school football game, where the whole town shows up under the lights and remembers, for a few hours, that it is one thing.
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The White Oak Basket Makers of Appalachia
A few mountain hands can still turn a living white oak into a basket that outlasts its maker. It begins not with weaving but with a tree.
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Abbeville, South Carolina: The Town Where a Confederacy Began and Ended
Abbeville holds a heavy distinction: where the Confederacy was first cheered into being, and where, five years later, it quietly ended.
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