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Out in the sunburnt silence of the California desert, where the earth cracks and the horizon hums with heat, one man stitched color and faith into the dust. Leonard Knight was his name, a simple, gentle soul with a heart as big as the Salvation Mountain he built with his own two hands. Leonard…

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August 29, 2025 On a late summer Friday, we raise our glasses, salt or sugar rim, dealer’s choice, to a songwriter who taught us that a life well‑lived is less about escaping reality and more about noticing it. The second annual Jimmy Buffett Day is not just a date; it’s a ritual. It’s the…

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“Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” – Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates (1724) The Devil of the Outer Banks If there’s a ghost that haunts the windswept shores of the Outer Banks, it’s the fearsome pirate Blackbeard, real…