by Sara Heilman | Photography by Beth Mann Johnny Richardson doesn’t recall there being anything strange about eating grilled cheese sandwiches in Dorothy Shaner’s kitchen. Sure, he was an African-American high schooler in 1971, spending time in a white woman’s kitchen, eating the most white-suburban of snacks, but that never crossed his mind. […]
by Matt White | Photography by Beth Mann When Barbara Blank and her husband, Stephen, moved to Fearrington in 2016, they expected that the neighborhood would be an easy place to make friends. There was the Roost Beer Garden at Fearrington Village, the Swim & Croquet Club across from their home and a long list
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Photography by Beth Mann With UNC right up the road, many in Chatham follow the Tar Heels when football season arrives. But for a handful of families, UNC truly is their “home” team: seven coaches on UNC’s sideline on Saturdays call Chatham home the rest of the week. Life for a coaching family
A Life of Service After coming ashore at Normandy soon after D-Day, George Chall saved lives and dodged bullets at the Battle of the Bulge. Now 96, he and his wife, Victoria, have found their way to Chatham. By Matt White | Photography by beth mann George Chall got his first look
A full life in Ward’s Hollow The Johnsons waited a decade for their restored farmhouse on Mount Gilead Church Road. It was worth it. By Matt White | Photography by beth mann On a recent afternoon, Brad Johnson fixed a tire on wife Dani’s car in the driveway of their home, a few
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Remembering Mama Dip Born and raised in Chatham, she became one of the South’s culinary icons By Matt White | Photo by briana brough Mildred Council, known to generations who ate her cooking as Mama Dip, died in late May in Chapel Hill. She was among the most celebrated chefs of traditional Southern cooking, which she
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Plays: Past, Present Pittsboro playwright’s latest is a ‘North Carolina fable’ of inequality By Holly West | Photography by Savannah Shaney If you saw “Leaving Eden” on the PlayMakers Repertory Company stage in April, the play’s setting in a small North Carolina town might have seemed familiar. That’s because its author, Pittsboro resident Mike Wiley,
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A Taste of Chatham Our county’s restaurateurs, cooks and foodies share their fave local dishes, drinks and more Compiled By Matt White | Photography by Beth Mann John Cappelletti executive Pie Man at Capp’s Pizzeria & Trattoria Says you’ve got to try: Postal Fish Company’s smoked North Carolina fish spread for an appetizer; fresh, local
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In Like a Tiger Meet four of Pittsboro’s newest furry residents By Matt White | Photography Courtesy Carolina Tiger Rescue Some arrived with a roar. Others gave a lazy flick of the tail. But after a long trip, four adult tigers arrived at the Carolina Tiger Rescue in April, the first new tigers to
A River Runs Through It Five generations of the Hobbs family have called Baldwin’s Mill home By Matt White | Photography by Briana Brough The water is the kind of cold that makes you gasp even though that’s the worst thing you can do. It looked so inviting from the shore, a woodsy Chatham swimming
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