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Sixty years ago, a house was reconstructed at Woodlawn, a National Trust-owned property outside of Washington, DC, after a historic and hard-fought battle to save it from destruction. Originally built in Falls Church, Virginia for Loren and Charlotte Pope, the 1,200-square-foot Frank Lloyd Wright home was under threat due to the construction of the new…

​Financial troubles forced Gilcrease to give up control of his collection and museum to the City of Tulsa in 1955. Thomas Gilcrease was just nine-year-old when he became eligible for a 160-acre land allotment in Oklahoma through his Creek tribal membership in 1899. The land, near present-day Glenpool, later became part of the Glenn Pool…

A South Carolina family has permanently protected 2,000 acres of farmland, forests and waterways that had remained in private ownership for generations. The Creekland Farms property in Laurens County was placed under a conservation easement in 2025, preventing future development while allowing the landowners to continue using it for agriculture, forestry and recreation. The Nature…

The Christmas season is around the corner, and the must-have Christmas tree often ends up on the curb once the holidays are over, needles trailing down the driveway. They rarely get a second act. In 2024, more than 160 of them got a second act. None of them were headed for a living room, but…

Pic credit: Jessica Vincent/AP It started like any ordinary day. On a June afternoon, Jessica Vincent, 43, was browsing the shelves of a Virginia thrift store. That’s when a striking vase caught her eye. The bottle-shaped vase had ribbons of colours, aqua green and amethyst purple, spiralled up its glass surface like stripes of paint.On…

Jiya Joshi lost her beloved grandmother at 14 and decided to volunteer at a nursing home. But getting rejected from there inspired her to begin a movement uniting generations through friendship, compassion and caring. A love lost too soon Jiya was only two when her grandparents arrived from India to Texas, to help care for…

A yellowed, rolled-up document bought for $2.48 at a Music City Thrift Store in Nashville sold for $477,650 at auction after it was confirmed as a very rare 1823 official copy of the United States Declaration of Independence. The document was bought in March 2006 by Michael Sparks, a music equipment technician, as reported by…

Sharon Jacks, an Army veteran in Ohio, is now a double amputee as her left leg was wrongly amputated because of the negligence of the doctors. A 74-year-old Ohio woman, an Army veteran, has both legs amputated below the knee as a wrong operation removed the wrong leg, and then, to correct that, she had…

Sara Gonzales visited the house of one Rajender Rao Bairineni and accused him of H-1B abuse. The family called 911. An Indian family living in Plano called the police when journalist Sara Gonzales visited their house with her H-1B allegations, as she had been doing for the past few months. Sara revealed that she got…

Nikki Haley’s son Nalin Haley again targets Vivek Ramaswamy, this time over religion. Vivek Ramaswamy‘s religion is once again at the center of a social media debate as the Ohio Governor election approaches, with Nikki Haley‘s son Nalin Haley once again calling Ramaswamy a liar. The origin of this controversy is not new; an old…