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12 of 12 Great Things I Found at Raleigh

By Lorraine • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Places, Style

 
12. Sir Walter
A few days into the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, North Carolina, a fellow garden writer glanced up at the statue in front of the convention centre that we’d passed about a million times and realized it was Sir Walter Raleigh. I’m not sure what took us so long to make the connection between [...]


10 of 12 Great Things I Found at Raleigh

By Lorraine • Oct 12th, 2009 • Category: Designers, Gurus & Trends, Style

10. Play Checks
My family, friends and most passersby who spy the newspaper on the front porch at 9 a.m. know that I’m not a morning person. So, when I dragged myself out of bed to attend the 8 a.m. keynote speech at the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, I sincerely hoped it would be [...]