Let alone seek revenge by annexing the manors of your enemies.
—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
4 Feb. 2026
Virginia‘s countryside is dotted with traditional farmhouses and manors, but one in the foothills of the Southwest Mountains has been given a contemporary twist by a New York architect.
Hundreds of thousands of acres, including many former rice plantations, have been conserved in the area between Beaufort and Charleston, and marshes there stretch out like coastal prairies.
—
Thad Moore,
AJC.com,
10 Mar. 2026
Enslaved women passed messages between plantations.
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
Almost all of this food is rescued from local grocery stores, restaurants, farms, and food manufacturers and distributors across San Diego and beyond.
—
Patty Oconnor,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
Global milk prices have crashed, driven by a massive oversupply, causing prices to plummet below production costs and threatening many small-to-mid-sized dairy farms.
—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2026
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