Familiar Faces Meet Pittsboro-based painter Onicas Gaddis By Holly West | Photography by Briana Brough When artist Onicas Gaddis walks up the sidewalk to The Mod on any given day, he is greeted by a chorus of “heys” and high-fives. Onicas, a Pittsboro-based painter, is well-known in the area for his art, which hangs at […]
The Truck Stops Here By John Cappelletti | Photography by Briana Brough My fondest food memory is my great-aunt Clotilda, who would make the pilgrimage from Florida every summer when I was a kid. Being part of a large Italian family, food was central to everything that we did and [every occasion we would]
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Fall Fun for Everyone Siler City’s Huckleberry Trail Farm offers disability friendly attractions By Michele Kisthardt | Photography by Hillary Graves Photography When Bob Reichel and his wife, Debby, opened Huckleberry Trail Farm – which was named after Bob’s son, Robert’s (now 21) favorite bedtime story – six years ago off Route 64 in Siler
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Old School The Hamms have taught the students of Chatham County for more than 80 years By Matt White | Photography by Briana Brough Every September, David and Ellen Hamm and their four daughters approach the changing season with a slightly out-of-place holiday greeting. “The first day of school is our ‘Happy New Year’,” says
Old School The Hamms have taught the students of Chatham County for more than 80 years By Matt White | Photography by Briana Brough Every September, David and Ellen Hamm and their four daughters approach the changing season with a slightly out-of-place holiday greeting. “The first day of school is our ‘Happy New Year’,” says
Putting Down Roots in Chatham Park Q&A with The Root Cellar’s Sera Cuni and Susan White By Laura Zolman Kirk | Photography by Briana Brough The Root Cellar’s Sera Cuni and Susan White have strong ties to the county. Sera has lived here since 2003 when she purchased a home in historic downtown Pittsboro. Susan
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Headlights in the Moonlight (published in Chatham Magazine in Fall 2017) A challenging trail near Briar Chapel beckons brave riders By Matt White | Photography by Briana Brough In 30 minutes,darkness will have fallen over the pine straw-trimmed lawns and neat sidewalks of the Briar Chapel, but as Tamara Sanders sits in
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Plan Bee With the pollinators’ numbers in decline, more than 200 of our neighbors are on a mission to protect the secret life of bees. By Chantal Allam | Photography by Nina Merklina John Strickland became a beekeeper as a simple favor for his neighbor. “[My neighbor] had a hive of bees and was getting up in age,” he
Home Grown Recollections As Told To Michele Kisthardt Dr. Karen Barbee is glad to be back The daughter of the county’s first African-American county commissioner talks about growing up here, leaving and now returning to the place she loves to live, work and raise a family. “My family’s roots in Chatham County go back hundreds
The Globalists The making of Wendy and Jacques Dufour’s eclectic home goods store, French Connections. By Jo Maeder “I finally decided which rooster to buy,” says Sheryl Forbis from Carrboro, holding a large, colorful one made of metal. Another piece of outdoor whimsy from the hundreds on display outside French Connections in Pittsboro has found
