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The Bicycling Gourmet - free food can’t be bad

The Bicycling Gourmet - free food can't be bad

Denny’s Restaurants hit a grand slam with the chain’s offer of a free Grand Slam Breakfast to anyone arriving at one of its locations between 6AM and 2PM today (Tuesday, Feb. 3).   I saw if first hand, though I admit I did not bike to the closest Denny’s.  The restaurant is across The Ditch and [...]

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Church Moved by the Hand of God

Church Moved by the Hand of God

Weathermen will tell you a hurricane hit the coast of North Carolina in 1876, but the people in the small town of Swanquarter say it was a blessing from God.

Swanquarter lies on the coast of the Tarheel State. It’s so small it’s unincorporated - the only unincorporated county seat in America. Swanquarter’s people have fished the waters of the Pamlico Sound for hundreds of years. But the waters, and God, never played a more dramatic role than they did on September 16th and 17th, 1876.

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2008 Edgar Award nominees

Here’s a post on the 2008 Edgar Award nominees.
I have a three-shelf, three-foot wide bookcase filled with books to read. I think I need a bigger shelf.
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