This enchanting storybook suite—once a historic dovecote—is a masterclass in rustic French charm and whimsical elegance.
—
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.
—
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.
—
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.
During a search at the police department, Insogna was allegedly found with 18 wax folds of heroin/fentanyl under her clothes near her ankle, the report said.
—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
7 Feb. 2026
This 20 percent-off Patagonia Women’s Houdini Jacket is weather-repellant and folds down into a hand-sized pouch.
On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
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Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
That cage, the magical but also eerie Thrushcross Grange, is a sight to behold—an epic, retina-searing, sometimes repulsive, consistently jaw-dropping palace, meticulously constructed by production designer Suzie Davies.
Treating a vape pen the same as heroin is a failure of common sense.
—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
Several others are competing for spots in a pen that features David Bednar, Camilo Doval, Fernando Cruz and Tim Hill at the top, including Paul Blackburn, Jake Bird, Brent Headrick, Angel Chivilli, Yerry De los Santos and Cade Winquest.
—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2026
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