Front porches used to be a way of life. Parents would sit on the front porch watching their children play in the yard. They would sip coffee or wine and greet their neighbors as people walked by. It ...

There was a time when old-fashioned general stores carried the memories and stories of rural North Carolina -- locals sitting in rocking chairs on the front porch, somebody picking a guitar while the ...

How the quintessential element of U.S. domestic architecture went from social hub to suburban relic—and back again. A photo of a family on a front porch on an Arkansas delta plantation, taken by ...

We tend to take front porches for granted. All across the country, from Maine to Hawaii, they should be appreciated as a distinctively American interpretation of how to complete our home designs while ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Tucked away down the winding rural roads of NC, there's an old country store not far from Raleigh, where you can sit in a rocking chair on the front porch listening to guitars and stories on a balmy ...