It's open door season on the Gulf Coast. It has been for several weeks. That means I leave the front door and the back door open as long as my wife will let me, and the windows stay open all night ...

In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King’s 1975 novel Salem’s Lot, a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a ...

I hurry to my Blue Heaven" Many people remember this ballad from the 1920s, but I wonder how many people have actually have been lucky enough to hear a whippoorwill’s evening call in the forest? Among ...

Bart Whiteman of Hilton Head Island writes that something important is missing from his life this summer. He’s not hearing any whippoorwills. “I heard one in March,” he said. “It is the sound of ...

This is the time of the year when you can listen out for the whippoorwills at dusk if you are in the right place. That means you must go where there is peace and quiet, where the traffic cacophony ...

In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King's 1975 novel Salem's Lot, a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a ...