Family Is The Key

Family Is The Key

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Blanchard and Calhoun’s 100-year history is a big part of Augusta’s story Photos provided by Wier Stewart   What a storied history it has been. Just ask the Blanchard and Calhoun Real Estate business family. They’ll tell you that sharing that story is not as easy...
Saving The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

Saving The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

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Illustration by Kat McCall   To this day, I can vividly recall a scene I witnessed as a child while returning to Augusta from a family vacation on the South Carolina coast. The sun had set, and there was little to light our way other than the moon and stars as my...
Augusta Boucherie

Augusta Boucherie

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Calling All Foodies Photo: Hank Jackson’s Blood of the River Boucherie, photo my BJ Peart   For millennia throughout the world, people have been butchering and processing their own meat, as an excuse to come together as a community and using it as a way to...
Finding His Spark

Finding His Spark

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Graniteville man shares love of bladesmithing with others Photos by Randy Pace   On a small street named Joy, in a quiet neighborhood in Graniteville, lives a Santa Claus whose chief gift is making and teaching others how to make knives. Meet Joey “The Blade”...
More Than A Label

More Than A Label

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Thomson company proud to make its apparel in America Photos provided by All American Khakis   It’s no surprise that products, such as clothing, that are “Made in USA” are not easy to find these days. But what some people might not know is that high-quality,...
To the Water Born

To the Water Born

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Photo courtesy of George Bowen   Brothers Michael Bowen, 17, and Nathan “Nate” Bowen, 15, had been avid baseball players for years until a fateful day about four years ago. They had grown tired of the game for various reasons and had begun looking around for a...