This enchanting storybook suite—once a historic dovecote—is a masterclass in rustic French charm and whimsical elegance.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
At the very top of the house, in a former dovecote with oxeye windows, there’s now a yoga studio and a roof deck with a hair-raising view of the river valley.
Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.
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Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
On the day of the rettir, hundreds of sheep are released into a central wooden sheepfold that’s surrounded by marked compartments—one belonging to each local farmer—that jut out from the inner circle like rays of the sun.
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Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Oct. 2022
This tidy residence in the western Swiss village of Etoy was built in 1830 as a sheepfold.
There are interesting folds to this Catherine as well.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
Her neighbors live within easy walking distance but their homes are barely visible, one to the next, because of folds in the hills and the density of trees and cacti.
An 18-year-old man pled guilty this week to a 2024 homicide over vape pens and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, Tarrant County district attorney Phil Sorrells said.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
The Supreme Court ruled that Trump does not have the power to impose sweeping tariffs at the stroke of a pen.
—
Margie Cullen,
The Providence Journal,
20 Feb. 2026
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