Lifestyle and Recreation

March 1st, 2010

Their Aim is True

The popular turkey shoots have lots of shooting, no turkeys

By David Hart

When John Bengel gives the word, 15 men stop joking around long enough to squeeze the triggers on their shotguns as they take careful aim at a target 20 yards downrange. After they shoot, the friendly ribbing resumes. It doesn’t take much on this mild winter evening; laughter fills the air under the tin […]

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March 1st, 2010

Fast Friends

NASCAR honors the best with a new Hall of Fame

By M.B. Roberts

Football has Canton. Baseball has Cooperstown. And even Rock and Roll has Cleveland. Now, with the opening of the new NASCAR Hall of Fame in May, racing has Charlotte. Fans have great expectations for the 150,000 square foot, $160 million facility with more than 40,000 square feet of exhibits and artifacts. Everything from the ’67 […]

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January 1st, 2010

High Steppers

by Tim Ghianni

Things were looking up in Berlin as residents celebrated the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall with an enormously entertaining bit of street theater.

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January 1st, 2010

Backcountry Barnstormers

Bush pilots fly hunters and fishermen to hot spots in the Alaskan wilderness

Story and photos By David Hart

It was meant to be a joke, an attempt to calm the tension Curly Warren sensed from the passenger sitting behind him, but when Warren suggested he “put this thing down on a rockpile” next to a rushing Alaska river, I wasn’t laughing. The “thing” was his Piper Super Cub — a two-seat, 1,200-pound engine, frame and wings wrapped in…

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January 1st, 2010

A Worthy Vessel

The inspiring first journey of the USS New York

by Tim Ghianni

When the USS New York’s bow stem, made from 7.5 tons of steel retrieved from Ground Zero, broke through the waves en route from New Orleans to New York City, Julius Williams and some of his fellow shipbuilders took a break from their jobs and watched.

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