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Rustic retreat - Head into Maine's north woods to chill out at The Birches.(Travel)

Special to the Herald ROCKWOOD, Maine - The thermometer's soaring in Boston. August gets pretty warm up in Maine's north woods, too. But if you chill out in an old-fashioned Adirondack chair on the porch of a modernized woodsman's cabin at The Birches, you're beating the heat, ecotourist style. The

Publication: The Boston Herald

Early risers: breakfast breads get warm welcomes for morning meals.(food)

Forget the carbs and pass the bread. The good bread. At least, that seems to be the current breakfast mantra. Interest in high-quality breakfast breads--from crusty, artisan breads and moist fruit breads to delectable, sticky cinnamon buns is increasing, according to many in the business, and

Publication: Restaurants & Institutions

ADD HEIGHT TO TABLETOP STILL LIFE.(At Home)

Byline: Mary Carol Garrity Scripps Howard News Service On lazy Sunday afternoons, I love to putter around my house, spending hours creating tabletop tableaus that are full of surprises. Decorating experience has taught me the key to pulling off this mismatched, mixed-up look is to build loads of

Publication: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)

THE TAHOE

Soaring Eagle Homes is a familyrun business with three generations of experience. The current family members running the business have college degrees in construction management, business and economics, as well as color and design. The company builds between eight and ten homes a year in prices

Publication: The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)

The familiar is made new Vive le familier!

Saturday's matinee program at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall may have looked pretty boilerplate on paper, offering Beethoven's familiar "Egmont" Overture, Third Symphony ("Eroica") and Fifth Symphony. But there was nothing remotely routine in the performances by the period-instrument ensemble,

Publication: The Washington Post