Chatham Magazine

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