Book review: ‘Breaking Bread and Drinking Martinis’

Peter Langrock likes a good martini. The joys he has gained through the sharing of food and drink spark the stories that are the essence of his 180-page memoir.

Kirk Webster’s new memoir, “Many Best Kept Secrets: A Wonderful and Unusual Life Around Honey Bees,” grapples with what farming really is.

If life is a highway, then Tom Wells has had quite the 73-year adventure on the open road.

LINCOLN — What is known about the life of Virginia bootlegger Willie Carter Sharpe comes together in a patchwork of fact and legend, but one thing was for sure: She could drive like hell. It’s estimated that during Prohibition, Sharpe hauled more than 200 … (read more)