Growing up in Laurel, Mississippi, I heard a word the old folks used that I could never find in any dictionary — ch’yarn. It meant what the dog had been wallowing in out in the yard. Years later, a friend from Baxley, Georgia knew the exact same word. Here’s what I think it is, and where it came from.
Fast food on the road has always been a gamble — but after biting into gristle-filled brisket sandwiches at one of America’s most hyped travel stops and getting treated like the problem when we complained, we finally had enough. Discover why we now pack our own food for every road trip, plus our creamy, travel-ready egg salad sandwich recipe that puts anything at a highway exit to shame.
In the September 1928 issue of House Beautiful, this house designed by Francis Keally appears as an exercise in restraint. Low, horizontal, quietly confident—a house that does not raise its voice. At first glance, it seems almost deliberately uneventful: wood siding,...
Not all antique finds come with provenance paperwork. Sometimes what draws us to a piece is mystery — and beauty. That was certainly the case when I stumbled upon a richly detailed heraldic painting at an antique shop in Charlotte, NC. At first glance its decorative...
In November of 1928, House Beautiful published a residential design by architect Francis Keally that feels both firmly rooted in its time and surprisingly modern nearly a century later. Titled A House of Spanish Type, the design reflects the American fascination with...
A restored and colorized 1928 French-style house design by architect Francis Keally, originally published in House Beautiful, featuring redrawn floor plans and a newly interpreted elevation based on the architect’s original description.
Every so often, you stumble across a house that doesn’t just belong to its time — it announces it. This 1930 design, published in Beautiful Universal Homes: The 1930 Book of Plans by Universal Plan Service, Inc. and architect E. Glen Morgan, reads today like a...
A century-old family cottage in Laurel, Mississippi tells its story through a 1920s shotgun house, a post–World War II expansion, and a long-imagined renovation that may never happen—but still matters.
Thieves are regularly exploiting food delivery services, restaurants, and delivery drivers using a simple but effective tactic: A thief places an order through a food delivery app while sitting in their car outside a fast-serve restaurant. The thief walks into the...