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Jenny Garrett McLaurin

By Chatham Magazine | May 16, 2019

The Goldsmith By Matt White | Photography BY Beth Mann   Jenny Garrett McLaurin has been creating custom gold jewelry in Chatham for more than 20 years, but she’s been honing her craft for much longer than that. “My grandmother and great aunt would give me their junky costume jewelry,” […]

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The first Chatham Magazine Women’s Issue

By Chatham Magazine | April 24, 2018

The first Chatham Magazine Women’s Issue They teach us to dance and they lift our spirits. They’re playing with the boys and rocking out with the girls. They make the laws and keep us safe. Ten remarkable women who call Chatham home.   Photography by Briana Brough   Tami Schwerin the […]

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Get Growing

By Chatham Magazine | April 24, 2018

Get Growing Student-run spring plant sale provides a temporary garden center for Bear Creek   By Holly West | Photography by Hillary graves   One chilly afternoon in mid-February, classmates Andrew Hicks and Dylan Lee were transferring sprouts of budding herbs, flowers and other plants from small trays, called cell […]

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FIRST PERSON: ‘I try to keep the poultry off the swingset’

By Chatham Magazine | April 24, 2018

‘I try to keep the poultry off the swingset’ Mackenzie Withington, owner of Lilly Den Farm and manager of the Pittsboro Farmers Market, talks homesteading, homeschooling and how she does it all     From Big City to 10 Acres “I’m actually from New York City. When I met [husband […]

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Fitness through Fellowship

By Chatham Magazine | February 16, 2018

Fitness through Fellowship F3 is an early-morning, men-only fitness group where members build muscles and connections By Matt White  |  Photography by Briana Brough At 41 degrees, the mid-January morning feels almost balmy. Seven days before, when the dozen or so men of the F3 fitness group arrived at Page Vernon […]

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By Chatham Magazine | February 16, 2018

Faster, Ladies! The ever-changing ‘Booty Buster’ class gives a 5 a.m. troupe of women an opportunity to forge personal connections and strengthen abs   By Matt White  |  Photography by Briana Brough   On a Saturday morning, just inside the red brick front of Ladies’ Fitness Center of Pittsboro, the music […]

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Artist and Residence

By Chatham Magazine | February 16, 2018

Artist and Residence Mark and Carol Hewitt built a famed pottery studio and a home on their Pittsboro property   By Matt White  |  Photography by Briana Brough   When Carol Hewitt and her husband Mark moved from New England to the end of Johnny Burke Road in 1983, they came […]

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Healers in the Hallway

By Chatham Magazine | January 17, 2018

Healers in the Hallway   Meet three nurses at Chatham County Schools By Holly West  |  Photography by Briana Brough With 18 schools to serve, the seven nurses of Chatham County Schools are always on the move. Each person is tasked with taking care of hundreds of students, providing care that […]

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