Onondaga, NY -- After trimming her Christmas tree in Thomas the Tank Engine decor two years ago, and with peppermints last year, Lisa Anderson decided to try a woodlands motif this season. The 18-inch ...

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What do you do with a 110-year-old dead tree that needs to be torn down? Most people would simply have the thing removed, but one Idaho woman had a better idea. Motivated by her passion for books, ...

To see it is to feel as if you’ve been transported into a fairy tale. Stone steps lead up to a tree trunk that’s been hollowed out. The green, glass-paned door is bordered on top by dentil molding in ...

Conventional public libraries have been at the heart of many communities for decades. But a new trend in book borrowing is making its way around the state. Little free libraries are giving neighbors a ...

Once upon a time, there was an 87½-foot tall white pine tree that stood between two houses on Ronalds Street in Iowa City. That tree, which already leaned a bit toward the home of Joe and Julia ...