In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King’s 1975 novel Salem’s Lot, a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a ...

I hurry to my Blue Heaven" Many people remember this ballad from the 1920s, but I wonder how many people have actually have been lucky enough to hear a whippoorwill’s evening call in the forest? Among ...

It's open door season on the Gulf Coast. It has been for several weeks. That means I leave the front door and the back door open as long as my wife will let me, and the windows stay open all night ...

I was sitting with a friend on his back porch in rural Crisp County in South Georgia the other evening when we heard the plaintive, insistent call of a bird emanating from the woods. “Ah, a ...

In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King's 1975 novel Salem's Lot, a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a ...