Home & Garden
How she built a career in the male-centric world of landscaping + what you should be doing in your yard right now.
Find inspiration in these three kitchen redesigns By Matt White | Photography by Beth Mann Ann Saunders and her family moved into their Governors Club home in 1997, renovating most of the house in their first year. But 20 years later, Ann was finding that every time she walked into […]
In Memoriam This story was published in the December/January edition of Chatham Magazine. Joanna Leach passed away Dec. 11 at 104. By Matt White | Photography by Beth Mann When Joanna Leach turned 104 in September, she put on a crown. Since turning 100, her family and friends from her […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
All In The Same Boat The Stafford family has been boating on Jordan Lake since 2003. Just 10 minutes from their home, the”Hot Now” houseboat provides a mini-vacation every time they leave the dock. Photography by Briana Brough ABOVE: Cas Stafford, (right, with friend Kirsten Moore) says that Jordan […]
Living in Governors Club One of our original planned communities evolves as new families arrive By matt white On a recent Wednesday night, Trey and RamonaLisa Robertson and their daughter Emily, 10, arrived at the front door of the Governors Club main clubhouse for what’s become a weekly routine: […]
