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Laurette Batstone Sales And Marketing Specialist Freelance

editor — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:49:46 +0000

He table for TV swop Laurette Batstone, 34, is a marketing manager. She lives with her husband Gary, 43, her mom-in-law Beth, 73, daughter Donné, 12, and son Nathann, 10, in Ballito. She took on the challenge of getting the family to eat around the table – rather than the TV – at dinner. It’s almost impossible to get our whole family to sit down for dinner together. Gary’s job takes him away from home during the week, while I finish work after 4:30pm most nights and, by the time I get home, all I want to do is put

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24 hours of food, fermentation and fun in California’s premier wine region

editor — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:40:47 +0000

6:30 a.m. VINE-YASA Salute the sun in at a Yoga in the Barn class with veteran hatha instructor Jami Grassi. Her converted farm-shed-studio looks out on serene hills, a bird-fi lled pond and rolling grapevines, natch. 7:45 a.m. STAY INN Return to the five-room Poetry Inn to make use of that sexy outdoor shower. Order the gourmet three-course breakfast, which includes pastries from famed bakery Bouchon, and enjoy it in front of the fireplace or on the balcony with panoramic views of the Stags Leap District. by CARRIE BELL 9 a.m. HOW BAZAAR Stroll the aisles at Oxbow Public Market

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Michael Beauchemin US Map & Phone & Address

editor — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:48:00 +0000

Michael Beauchemin US Map & Phone & Address 63 Maverick Square, East Boston;(617)567-0177 Talk about lowering the overhead: This gallery is actually located in the home of Michael Beauchemin. He represents new, young artists in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, and photography. His goal is to give underexposed Boston artists the break they need to get to the next level of their artistic career. For you, the bonus is getting a chance to see the future of art, today. Because this is a private home, gallery hours are limited to Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 7 P.M. or

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Photographic Resource Center US Map & Phone & Address

editor — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:48:00 +0000

Photographic Resource Center US Map & Phone & Address 602 Commonwealth Ave. Boston; (617) 353-0700 On the campus of Boston University, this gallery offers month-long exhibits, often on controversial subjects such as AIDS and Vietnam. The gallery does charge admission: $3 general, $2 for students and seniors. Open Tuesdays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. and Thursday evenings until 8 P.M. PRC is on an academic schedule, so they close in the summer. There are plenty of Scots pines, and many consider this the best of all sections of the Union Destination and the basin/moorings at Bridge 51 an

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Richardson-Clarke Gallery US Map & Phone & Address

editor — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:24:00 +0000

Richardson-Clarke Gallery US Map & Phone & Address 38 Newbury St. Boston; (617) 266-3321 In an area saturated with art galleries, Richardson-Clarke stands out because it presents a genre relatively difficult to find in Boston: traditional American and European paintings from the 17th through early 20th centuries. That covers a lot of territory, artistically speaking; the owners like to keep their exhibitions diverse, so there’s no telling what you’ll see at any given time. Hours vary; call ahead. The A801 runs uphill, and on the original travel destination line there would not have been enough headroom to pass under the

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Chapel Hill

editor — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:45:00 +0000

From Somerset Place, we drive to Creswell on Thirty Foot Canal Road, alongside a canal dug by slave labor for the rice plantation. This canal was used to drain the farmland. Transportation Canal, paralleling Thirty Foot Canal to the east, was used for transporting the rice to market by way of the Scuppernong River into Albemarle Sound. Creswell, at the end of the canals, is a tidy little village with a wide main street possessing a fine collection of nineteenth-century wood-frame buildings. From Creswell, our route takes us over the Albemarle Sound on the second-longest bridge in North Carolina at

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CIRCLING THE CAPE FEAR RIVER

editor — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:00:00 +0000

At first impression, this route hardly qualifies as a backroad. After all, Wilmington, which comprises a good portion of the route, is the state’s ninth-largest city and its metropolitan area is ranked twentieth in the nation in growth rate. And along the developed beaches of Pleasure Island, you can’t squeeze a playing card between the hotels and condominiums. But by taking roads that only the locals know about, we’re going to bypass most of the horrific congestion along the major routes through Wilmington and Pleasure Island. Also, if you make this trip in winter, you’ll still get to see most

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NORTH CAROLINA MAP

editor — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:30:00 +0000

MYSTERIOUS CAROLINA BAYS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE MID-ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN are mysteries. Some half million of them. Most are located in the Carolinas, hence the name Carolina bays. Bay comes from the types of shrubs usually found growing within them red bay, sweet bay, and loblolly bay. Elliptical in shape and ranging in size from a few acres to several miles across, Carolina bays are shallow depressions surrounded by a slightly raised sandy rim. All are oriented in a northwest-to-southeast direction. Most hold water at some point, though they can be dry for several years in a row; some of

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TOXAWAY FALLS

editor — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:45:00 +0000

TOXAWAY FALLS HAS PERHAPS the most storied history of any waterfall in North Carolina. The name Toxaway in its many spellings and variances has several Cherokee applications, among them a former settlement in South Carolina and a Cherokee chief. The original meaning of the name is uncertain. One often-repeated definition is redbird. Whatever its origin, today the name refers to a river, a mountain, a creek, a lake, and the waterfall. The development of the Toxaway Falls area began after the turn of the twentieth century with the construction of the lake and a five-hundred-room luxury resort called Toxaway Inn.

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TRAVEL TO NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS

editor — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Art Loeb Trail provides access to the summit of Black Balsam Knob in Pisgah National Forest. The mountain offers panoramic views. The sun peeks through the fog during a winter sunrise near Beech Gap in Pisgah National Forest. Try to imagine what this route would look like if you were making this trip a hundred years ago. You’d be traveling on a logging train, for one thing, as roads were mostly nonexistent. The biggest difference would be on the mountain slopes. All the trees would be cut, the slopes bare and eroded, and with so much dry logging slash all

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